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Religious buildings are sites exposed to specific risks represented, for example, by theft, vandalism, damage, and terrorism that could injure both people and cultural/religious heritage. Therefore, they need proper actions to prevent the above risks and to protect against them using intrusion detection, access control, video surveillance, communication systems, security personnel and procedures properly integrated to realize an integrated system or solution. In this paper a novel risk analysis methodology for religious buildings (RARB) is illustrated, showing as a case study, without any loss of its general validity, its application to a Catholic church. The proposed risk analysis technique allows identifying the exact number of physical security protections (intrusion detection system, access control, video surveillance, communication devices, security personnel, etc.) that the religious site needs and the related performances as a function of the possible targets which can be attacked. It also allows avoiding overestimating the risk as in the case of including redundant protective countermeasures that sometimes result to be useless, thereby reducing the related extra costs involved. Furthermore, it results in being useful and suitable for plenty of other cultural heritage sites.

The security of a port is strongly dependent on the use of integrated access control technology systems. Any weakness of the integrated access control system involves a weakness of the port. For this reason it is necessary to design and realize highly integrated, efficient and reliable access control systems. The authors illustrate the work made to design and realize the integrated access control system of the most important commercial and tourist ports of Italy.

The security of a modern state is strongly related to the telecommunication system of the State itself. Any weakness of the system involves a weakness of the security of the State. For this reason it is necessary to design and realize highly integrated, efficient and reliable telecommunication systems. The authors illustrate the work made to design and realize the security telecommunication system of the Vatican City State