A tool developed to mitigate security risks

There are several methodologies concerning risk assessment in PT, a widely used one being the methodology developed in COUNTERACT, a project funded by the European Urrion through Framework Programmer 6 (FP6). The product, an improved and broadly accepted risk assessment methodology, has proven to be very successful and fit to be the standard practice in the PT context. 

Notwithstanding the good results achieved through the implementation of this practice, new security challenges have been emerging due to the growing population of cities, a fact which directly leads to an increase of threats fi om all sorts of 

The risk assessment developed by the SECUR-ED partners is typically dedicated to the specific environment of PTOs, having been designed as a tool to help the operators and local authorities to quote their risks and define their priorities concerning the security investments. The aim is to decrease the associated risks by solving the detected vulnerabilities and mitigating the challenges. 

PTOs need therefore to prevent or reduce the impact of such incidents. The main rationale behind performing and applying a risk assessment is to spot the relevant security gaps in order to decide what measures may be appropriate to improve the overall security level. 

Within the SECUR-ED project, the following terminology has been defined  

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