Material Security Case Study

1. What component of the overall security objective deserves the most attention in the environments mentioned in the article? What components would be less pertinent for these particular environments during a vulnerability assessment? Why?

I am fairly torn on what component of the overall security objective deserves the most attention when it comes to church safety, or any place of worship. The majorities of churches are small and are funded on public money. Thus, they cannot afford some of the “higher end” security measures, like a security agency or implementing metal detectors, which I believe would be scary for a place of worship to have to do.

I believe there are two important components to the overall security objective that deserve
I understand that the majority of places of worship are funded through public donations and congregation but if none of those who donate feel it is a safe place they can practice their religion, there is not likely to be anyone in attendance and the place of worship will fade anyways. I do not feel these places must have an “around-the-clock” professional security team watching surveillance cameras, as that can get very expensive but to ask for volunteers from the local community is not unheard of. If the place of worship had the ability to add more lighting around the outside of their building and perhaps a few surveillance cameras, whether they are monitored “around the clock” or not, I believe crimes such as arson or bombing would lessen. With enough lighting, the cameras can then cause the criminals features to be more discernable. With even somewhat clear images of the criminal, the place of worship can then ask for aid from the local community in capturing the one responsible. In this way, the crimes being wrought against the place of worship then sort of become a type of personnel security, involving the community in the