National Monuments and Icons

Cultural monuments are considered to be some of the most important buildings representing a nation's cultural identity. These monuments are of great historical importance and therefore attract large crowds of vistors which offer terroists the perfect target.   

When selecting their targets, terrorists attempt to achieve several goals. They want to demonstrate that nothing is sacred or safe. They want to produce mass fear, alter the way people live and erode their confidence in the government. Monuments and icons become an obvious choice for terrorists to achieve these goals.

Protecting National Treasures
Working with Israeli counterterrorism experts who have 50 years of experience protecting their nations' cultural artifacts, Shafran USA offers counterterrorism services to monument and icon curators to prevent terrorist attacks.

Shafran USA:

• Conducts a threat assessment to determine vulnerabilities to a potential terrorist attack

• Determines the most likely location and probability of an attack

• Designs and installs a counterterrorism system to prevent a terrorist attack

• Trains security personnel to use behavioral pattern recognition on persons entering the facility to recognize  potential terrorists

Terrorists seek to destroy, incapacitate, or exploit critical infrastructure and key resources—like monuments and icons—to damage public morale and confidence. Shafran USA designs counterterrorism systems that help keep a nation's treasures safe and secure.