Our client had recently purchased a large, rural home and wanted to investigate the safety and security it afforded their family. We were engaged to conduct a risk assessment of the property and use our expertise to highlight vulnerabilities and make recommendations for a security solution that met the client’s needs. BluSkills undertook a multi-faceted approach to assessing the situation and devising suitable recommendations.

We started with a personal risk assessment, enabling us to fully understand all factors involved. This vital
first step allowed us to ensure that our review was conducted with the correct actors in mind. For example,
state sponsored actors would be perceived to have a higher capability, support and skills set than a burglar.
Understanding how this family wanted to live life played an important role in creating the solution. Our
assessment showed that the client was a process- and rule-driven individual, and the family liked their own
independence. We introduced good human procedures and security protocol, safe in the knowledge that
these would be understood and adhered to. We visited the site and inspected it thoroughly over two days, conducting detailed exterior and interior investigations. This inspection revealed a number of areas for improvement – a mix of low cost procedural developments, physical measures and technical enhancements.
Using our hallmark ‘layered’ approach to security, we created redundancy and eliminated a single point of
failure for the security solution. We did this from the outer layers of the grounds through to the inside of the
property. Layered security measures mean that if someone breaks through, or breaches, an outer security
‘layer’, our client will have time to react.