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The main insight is that companies are not too concerned with security from a terrorism point of view. They are,
however, extremely interested to consider measures that guard them better against (organized) crime, and they
also understand better, among others as a result of the work in PROTECT, that this requires a holistic approach,
that includes facility security, but also awareness among personnel, personnel and visitor screening,
organizational learning and other managerial measures. This shift of focus is not problematic, because terrorism
and crime fighting addresses the very same weaknesses in companies and supply chains. It is therefore possible
to address both problems with one set of integrated measures. Apparently this shift of focus is sometimes
needed to facilitate transition.
In addition, the transition process has shown that there are two general paths to fully integrated and secure
supply chains of the future: one path is based on the implementation and adoption of technology and
information integration, and another path is based on governmental measures. Given the absence of serious
terrorist attacks in the last few years, most companies follow the first path, but this is a slow and unhurried
process, because of technological shortcomings, and lack of quantifiable benefits. Once there is a new attack, all
efforts will switch to the other path, and much ‘progress’ will be made due to pressure from governmental
regulation. All companies are confronted with this unstable situation, where the only way out is to make
themselves robust, secure and resilient, introducing measures in anticipation of governmental measures and
detrimental events.
Scaling up
The PROTECT consortium is very conducive to scaling up the results. First of all, the Port of Rotterdam and
Dutch Customs have internalized much of the knowledge that was gathered in PROTECT and currently employ
and develop this knowledge for their own purposes. One of the main issues for the Port of Rotterdam at the
moment is the development of solutions for the future US 100% scanning requirement, while Dutch Customs is
in the process of developing new analytical tools for risk profiling, in parallel with the development of the new
Sagitta system.
Three other partners, the industry associations EVO, TLN and NDL are also spreading the knowledge they
gained in PROTECT through their own member channels. Especially some of the tools that were developed in
PROTECT are finding their way too many more companies that we were able to reach during the project.
Finally, some of the work that was started in PROTECT is scaled up in the EU project INTEGRITY, where a
really new security and visibility solution will be built and implemented in the next three years.
Two other partners, TNO and DNV, will also help scale up the results in PROTECT. TNO will continue the work
on resilience in their own internal resilience research program, where resilience scans will be performed with
more companies. DNV, who developed the inland shipping certification approach in cooperation with the Port of
Rotterdam, will continue to develop this approach in a commercial setting.
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