Evaluation of physical protection system effectiveness

The ability of physical protection system (PPS) to withstand a possible attack and prevent an adversary from achieving his objectives is generally characterized as PPS effectiveness. The evaluation of effectiveness serves then as a basis for assessing whether a relevant PPS meets an intended aim. The article presents the selected results of an extensive analysis tackling the present state of PPS system effectiveness evaluation. There has been determined the achieved state of the development of a PPS efficiency evaluation theory, and also the possibilities of practical application of known algorithms, analyses, models, program products, tests and exercises which might be used for evaluating the PPS effectiveness. The authors of the paper have proposed that a couple of ways can be selected to develop these methods more when following the results of the performed analysis.