In line with our goal of becoming the Philippines’ first techglomerate, the Physical Assets Security (PAS) team, in partnership with Aboitiz Data Innovation, have equipped themselves with one of the most important resources for companies to date: data.
Among the major physical security concerns of the Group are criminality, insurgency, and terrorism. Over the years, the AEV Physical Assets Security, together with the SBU and BU security heads, gather information on relevant incidents and events affecting our BUs sites and facilities. This information is manually analyzed, validated, and mapped out in order to assess its impact to operation, our employees, and properties.
Along with the team from ADI, the PAS Team collaborated and came up with the Security Risk Scoring Dashboard where data science is used to analyze external security events and incidents as it relates to the facility based on the incident’s proximity, severity, recency, and frequency. The system processes these inputs to provide the security risk score for each BU facility, thus enabling the security heads to quickly assess what alert level a facility should be and implement preemptive measures in accordance with the Security Alert Level System.
Prior to this is the development and implementation of the Security Alert Level System. This system is a five-level external security condition based on established criteria with corresponding preemptive measures that the facility must undertake in order to mitigate, if not avoid such impact of the threat.
This outcome has opened up to other risk themes such as natural catastrophe, supply chain, and health concerns that affect the security alert level of a facility.
Some things that allowed us to build an efficient system are:
- Early gathering of data (since 2015): Information received through email, text messages or chat groups and inputting the information in a spreadsheet provided historical data.
- Properly structuring data gathered into fields following the who, what, why, where, when, and how questions
- Intelligence information sharing among the Group proved to have great value as some sites are in proximity of other sites, and information gathered by one greatly helps others.
