Current trends and experience in soft targets protection

The issue of Soft Targets Protection is considered a strategic area of interest due to current trends in the security environment. The specific conditions and properties of this infrastructure system type increase the need for the creation of methodological tools for the objectification of risk assessment and the optimization of security measures. Due to the need for greater addressability, the article will be tied to the conditions in the Czech Republic in the context of the normative definition and classification of Soft Targets in a wider context. In the beginning of the article, the basic framework for understanding the issue in the environment of the Czech Republic will be presented, with a general definition of the basic philosophical framework of the security pillars. In view of the research activities of the author's collective workplace, selected methodological tools will be described. For the necessary level of detail, one selected methodological tool will be presented in detail.