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business management and business practice
. Other 
relevant regulations here include general and sectoral 
legislation, such as fire protection and fire prevention laws, 
building and planning law and environmental law or the law 
pertaining to the energy industry.

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Figure 1: Motivation for security at companies 
Motivation: Compliance with security standards
Motivation: Business success
Compliance with RFID* 
and customer‘s
security standards
Compliance with
sectoral security
standards
Compliance with
statustory security
standards
Investments in security
Reduced
Costs
Increased
sales
Defence of 
market share
Risk
management
Protection of 
proprietary
rights
Business Case for security
 
*
Technologies such as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), sensors, 
intelligent containers and software solutions for reporting and supply chain 
management can be combined with optimised processes and procedures to 
render the supply chain substantially more transparent. 
Diagram and notes based on: Deloitte, Erfolg in der Secure Economy – 
Wachstum und Wohlstand in einer sicheren Wirtschaft. Executive Summary, 
2004, p. 4 f.
From the point of view of security, measures to prevent 
interference by unauthorised persons
constitute a 
particularly important means of protecting critical 
infrastructures. Facilities are to be protected from disruptions 
resulting from criminal intent, natural events or accidents in 
such a manner as to eliminate as far as possible any serious 
danger, e.g. as a result of an explosion or the dispersion of 
hazardous substances. Failure of the provided 
products/services must also be avoided, in so far as such 
failure might give rise to substantial dangers in accordance 
with the above-stated KRITIS definition. 
Measures to prevent 
unauthorised interference 
The overriding concern of the baseline protection concept is 
to protect human life by reducing the vulnerability of