The Significance Assessment of Passive Defense in Harbors

The coastal cities and of course port and harbors due to their economic, transit and tourism situations are always exposed to attacks and threats from the enemy. Passive defense is among approaches through which ,from one hand , makes the deterrence role of ports increase and their vulnerability decrease either. Regarding the importance of the topic, this research, using five indicators (architecture and design, structure, facilities and equipment, proximity and access, information security and cyber network) and 104 sub-indexes, aims to shed light on the significance assessment of passive defense in harbor of imam khomeini. This research is applied and the research method is survey evaluation with emphasis on the questionnaire. The statistical population includes the employees and experts of the port administration and some officials of the institutions of the city of Bandar Imam Khomeini and the determined sample size is 100 people. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to check the data distribution normality, and to check the status of the research variables, structural equation modeling was done using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) method via SMARTPLS software, and Friedman's model was used to rank the variables. The findings from the PLS test results revealed that the facilities and equipment index has the highest impact (0.873) and the information security and cyber network index has the lowest impact (0.737).