Institutions like museums, libraries, historic sites, and similar establishments are a means by which a society maintains its cultural heritage and property. These properties have to be protected with good technology, staff and from various kinds of hazards because they are highly valuable and so that these cultural heritages can be properly maintained and be passed on to the next generation.

In order to protect this cultural heritage and keep it safe and secure, software developers at ProtaTECH have developed a tool which can clearly assess the vulnerability of these valuable institutions to various endangerments and imperilments.

CIVA Tool helps these inestimable institutions to assess their emergency preparedness and safety at any given point of time.

This web-based tool depends on an in-depth survey that involves a series of questions that are framed by experts and specialists in the field of cultural security, risk management, collection management, fire and security. This tool has four modules where by the institution can assess its vulnerability. These four modules help the institutions to assess their preparedness in the following four fields.

Each module provides a series of questions. At the end of the questionnaire one can collectively and individually estimate the readiness of the institution towards that particular aspect of vulnerability. Every question depends on how the user answers the previous questions.

All the registered users go online to the secured CIVA site to answer a series of questions. CIVA features a unique "Protocol Gateway" to generate an accurate and detailed portrait of the institution which thereby helps to know its unique capabilities.