EMP Triage Assessment™ by Instant Access Networks, LLC
IAN, LLC provides a quick triage approach to business continuity assessment of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) on critical infrastructure. IAN has evaluated facilities that include production facilities, data centers, communications networks, government and mobile facilities. The first food production company in the country to perform such an assessment, Steuben Foods in Alma, NY, has graciously provided a letter of recommendation for IAN who conducted the assessment and encourages others to do the same.
The EMP Triage Assessment ™ for protection from manmade and natural EMP includes a three part approach to your entire organization’s vulnerability. The first covers the quick and inexpensive (often free) things you can do immediately to protect your infrastructure. The second area is the middle ground that covers all that you can do with some effort and cost. IAN accomplishes this by bringing in nationally accomplished related experts to quickly assess your entire environment and provide a consensus report so you can determine what steps you can take and how to prioritize them. The third area will cover those things that you may not be able to afford to protect now but can address through “work-around” recommendations. Here is what is included in the assessment:
Site visit:
1) Two days of site visits by 4 experts (manmade and natural EMP, test techniques, utilities, system integration)
2) Physical testing of one sample building, factory or network facility
3) Meeting with key facilities operators, engineers and business leaders
4) Quick meeting of local utilities facilities and other organizations needed to sustain
Report:
1) Overview of vulnerabilities
2) Test results mapped against IAN 4 level EMP protection range
3) An overview of quick improvements and actions (Triage Step 1)
4) Recommendations for mitigation (Triage Step 2)
5) Recommendations for “work-arounds” for items unobtainable quickly (Triage Step 3)
Client requirements:
1) Sign-off by CEO
2) All meetings of outside utilities arranged to occur during the two day visit
The results can be integrated into your continuity of operations plan meeting recommendations of NFPA 1600, the fire code for business continuity that covers scenarios for EMP events.
Cost: $30,000 plus travel and lodging
Fact-based mapping against a relevant EMP rating system: Your assessment will show how your specific facility or community may require different levels of protection depending on the importance of the system element being protected and its vulnerability. Instant Access Networks, LLC devised the Four-level EMP Rating System™ to show ranges of protection that may be relevant to various elements (power, data, communications) in a 4 level system-wide protection method where level three meets or exceeds various MIL SPECs for EMP and TEMPEST requirements. Click here to see the EMP rating system within the service brochure.
For information or an appointment to discuss an EMP Assessment, contact IAN staff.