VIDEO: 10 Most Heavily Guarded Places on Earth

Usually, going through security is nothing more than a quick pat down and a big smile at the officer.

With these ten places, it’s different.

This video presents ten places around the world with top security.

According to Wikipedia, perception of security may be poorly mapped to measurable objective security. For example, the fear of earthquakes has been reported to be more common than the fear of slipping on the bathroom floor although the latter kills many more people than the former.

Similarly, the perceived effectiveness of security measures is sometimes different from the actual security provided by those measures. The presence of security protections may even be taken for the safety itself.

For example, two computer security programs could be interfering with each other and even canceling each other’s effect, while the owner believes they are getting double the protection.

Security theater is a critical term for deployment of measures primarily aimed at raising subjective security without a genuine or commensurate concern for the effects of that action on real safety.

For example, some consider the screening of airline passengers based on static databases to have been Security theater and the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System to have created a decrease in objective security.

Perception of security can increase objective security when it affects or deters malicious behavior, as with visual signs of security protections, such as video surveillance, alarm systems in a home, or an anti-theft system in a car such as a vehicle tracking system or warning sign.

Since some intruders will decide not to attempt to break into such areas or vehicles, there can be less damage to windows in addition to protection of valuable objects inside. Without such advertisement, an intruder might, for example, approach a car, break the window, and then flee in response to an alarm being triggered.

Either way, perhaps the car itself and the objects inside aren’t stolen, but with perceived security even the windows of the car have a lower chance of being damaged.

In the corporate world, various aspects of security are historically addressed separately – notably by distinct and often noncommunicating departments for IT security, physical security, and fraud prevention.

Today there is a greater recognition of the interconnected nature of security requirements, an approach variously known as holistic security, “all hazards” management, and other terms.

Inciting factors in the convergence of security disciplines include the development of digital video surveillance technologies and the digitization and networking of physical control systems.

Greater interdisciplinary cooperation is further evidenced by the February 2005 creation of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management, a joint venture including leading associations in security (ASIS), information security (ISSA, the Information Systems Security Association), and IT audit (ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association).

In 2007 the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) released ISO 28000 – Security Management Systems for the supply chain.

Although the title supply chain is included, this Standard specifies the requirements for a security management system, including those aspects critical to security assurance for any organisation or enterprise wishing to manage the security of the organisation and its activities.