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Protection Manual
and the further recommendations from 
the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
In order to define workable and feasible measures, 
fundamental agreement requires to be achieved as to what 
level of protection 
is desired and acceptable. The following 
systematic approach is thus expedient for the purpose of 
evolving the protection concept: 
Analysis/ planning 
process
I. 
The establishment of danger categories, differentiated 
according to the areas of natural disasters, incidents 
resulting from technical failure or human error, 
terrorism or criminal acts, 

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II. 
based on the above, definition of the respective 
protection levels, 
III. 
the development of damage and threat scenarios, 
IV. 
the analysis of weak points, 
V. 
the formulation of protection objectives as a basis for 
the definition of protection measures and counter-
measures, 
VI. 
definition of the required scope of action (coordination 
between public and private-sector measures), 
VII. 
implementation of the defined required scope of action 
and
VIII. 
regular reviews of this analysis and planning process 
for the purposes of quality management. 
The competence and responsibility for implementing 
measures to realise the baseline protection concept lies with 
the operators. Aspects to be analysed in this context 
include:
3
 
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General risk assessment 
(general safety situation, size 
and composition of the workforce, quality of the security 
organisation, social positions of members of the company 
management, nature of distribution links and activities 
abroad, criminality established to date, etc.) 
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