THE FUTURE OF SECURITY ASSESSMENTS
Discover the secret that most security professionals will never know about consistency, scalability, and quantifiability as part of their risk assessment strategy.
Hint - It will revolutionize your security and safety operations, while saving you big money.
All The Tools You Need to Manage Your Critical Assets and Facilities
CARVER+ gives you everything you need to assess and manage the threats, vulnerabilities, and risk levels of your organization's assets. Not only can you conduct assessments on your phone or tablet, but with CARVER+, you can also write reports in record time, as well as monitor all your assets at anytime - form anywhere!
Efficiency and Consistency
CARVER+ allows your security team to more efficiently perform assessments, while ensure that there is consistency between assessors, regardless of experience level.
Quantitative Measurement
CARVER+ utilizes quantitative measurement, which assists with asset prioritization and probability of attack. It also assists with budgeting and financial metrics.
Organizational Management
CARVER+ will provide your organization with a comprehensive management system, which ensures nothing falls through the cracks. Not only can you track your assets, but you can also track work orders, alerts, and team communication.
What is the CARVER Methodology?
As a security professional, why should I care?
Underlying Magic...
At the heart of CARVER+'s proprietary vulnerability assessment algorithm lies the CARVER Methodology. CARVER is a commonsense methodology that uses both qualitative and quantitative metrics to produce a measurable “likelihood of attack” against an organization’s assets and facilities. It plays an essential role in the protection of critical infrastructure by determining how an adversary can successfully exploit a system or an asset’s vulnerabilities. It is the foundation for CARVER+’s collection and monitoring capabilities.
CARVER+ was designed by a team of vulnerability assessment professionals who came from an intelligence community (IC) background… including the “Godfather of CARVER”, Leo Labaj, one of the original co-founders of CARVER back in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s while a member of the CIA’s Special Activities Division (SAD). The technical coding was done by programmers who previously worked with NASA, as well as the US Military’s Space and Mission Command. The developers are a textbook blend of real-world operators and big-brained software engineers.
Our people literally wrote the book(s) on CARVER!
What does CARVER stand for?
CARVER allows complex data to be synthesized into usable information by integrating the analysis and examination of assets, threats, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures surrounding a specific facility. Its applications are numerous, from physical security and counterintelligence, to cyber security. CARVER is an acronym which stands for:
• Criticality - Identify critical systems, single points of failure or choke points
• Accessibility - Determine ease of access to critical systems, operations or assets
• Recoverability - The time and effort taken to recover from an adverse event
• Vulnerability - Security system effectiveness vs. adversary capability
• Effect - Scope and magnitude of adverse consequences that would result from malicious actions and responses to them
• Recognizability - Evaluate likelihood that potential adversaries would recognize the asset as a critical or valuable target
CARVER+ Utilizes the 16 Critical Infrastructures from DHS + CARVER!
Every CARVER+ assessment begins by determining which critical the security professional will be evaluating. Once the assessment begins, the user will score each asset within that infrastructure utilizing the six CARVER criteria. Read more about the CARVER Methodology from this article written by our team in the Harvard Business Review.
DON'T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT...
See What Others Have Said About the CARVER Method!
"The CARVER Target Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment Methodology is one of the most effective tools that a security professional can use to identify and evaluate weaknesses in a critical infrastructure system."
GEN. JAMES L. JONES, USMC Retired
FORMER US NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
FORMER NATO SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER
"As the person who was ultimately responsible for the security of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, I fully grasp the tremendous value that the CARVER Methodology provides to security professionals. Simply stated-CARVER works!"
COL. JENNIFER HESTERMAN, PhD., USAF Retired
FORMER VICE COMMANDER, ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF "SOFT TARGET HARDENING"
Frequently Asked Questions
CARVER+ is priced monthly, by the number of assessments needed annually. The minimum number of assessments you can purchase is ten. The more assessments you purchase, the greater the discount.
You can conduct as many assessments as you would like, provided you pay for each one of them.
We sell our assessment packages in three categories: Basic (10 assessments) and Advanced (25 assessments). Please contact us should you need more than 25 assessments annually.
No. There is no setup fee, unless you request customization of CARVER+ for your organization.
Yes. All payments are in advance for the annual subscription.
We store the data securely with Microsoft Azure. In fact, we don't even see your data. We create your account and then turn the data over to you to manage.
If you don't want to use the cloud, you can store and manage all of the assessment and dashboard data on your own server for an additional cost (available on the Professional and customized packages).
Not to worry. If you are not familiar with the CARVER Methodology, we offer both live and online training courses to get your team up-to-speed on conducting assessments using CARVER.
We've got you covered. As part of your purchase of CARVER+, you will get several online tutorials to get you trained up on the software. We also offer ongoing tech support as part of your investment.
Absolutely. Large organizations seriously interested in CARVER+ may demo the software for 30 days and assess one of their own facilities.
CARVER+ is a 100% American-made software system that was designed and built by former members of the US Government, to include the Intelligence Community and US Space and Missile Defense Command. Our subject matter experts have over 150 years of combined experience in critical infrastructure protection, vulnerability assessments, facility security operations, anti/counter-terrorism and software engineering.
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