Security Function Framework and Vibrant-Secure Function Framework

SFF has four dimensions:

Security Function Framework

The Security Function Framework articulates the security aspects of existing designs, and potential new ones, using four dimensions:

  • Purpose – what, and who, is the design for, in terms of security and other functions?
  • Niche – how does it fit in the wider security ecosystem, e.g. is it a dedicated security product or a securing product with some other main purpose?
  • Mechanism – how does it work to causally influence the offender or other agents/entities in the crime situation?
  • Technicality – how is it constructed, and how is it operated?

Niche

Publications and presentations

The following publications and presentations set out the details of the Security Function Framework, and describe some applications:

Lulham, R., Camacho Duarte, O., Dorst, K. and Kaldor, L. (2012). ‘Designing a Counter-Terrorism Trash Bin’, In P. Ekblom (Ed.) Design Against Crime: Crime Proofing Everyday Objects. Crime Prevention Studies 27 Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner.

Vibrant-Secure Function Framework

The Framework is described in the following case study of the Oslo project: