Systematic Threat Assessment: how to adapt security measures based on the research on latest threats

The Systematic Threat Assessment (STA) is an essential part of a long-term CASRA research project which is funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA). The main project goal is to increase the threat detection performance at airports by combining up-to-date intelligence with competence of security officers based on very regular changes to current training programmes which are implemented at airports and unpredictable adaptations of the screening level. The definition or adaptation of training measures for security officers should ideally be based on information on recent incidents as well as new and emerging threats to stay in tune with current and future threat scenarios. Therefore, an intelligence-based approach for the definition of different training measures, SECURITY SUPPLEMENT