Strategies For Protecting National Critical Infrastructure Assets: A Focus On Problem-solving
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Strategies for Protecting National Critical Infrastructure Assets eases the research burden, develops investigative protocols, and pulls together data into a comprehensive and practical guide, to help the serious reader understand advanced concepts and techniques of risk assessment with an emphasis on meeting the security needs of the critical national infrastructure. The text is divided into five major sections, which are further broken down by individual chapters, each addressing one element of risk assessment as well as focusing attention on applying the risk assessment methodology to a particular industry. This book establishes a new and acceptable approach for conducting risk assessments in a high-risk world. Helps the reader to understand advanced concepts and techniques of risk assessment Provides a quick, reliable, and practical "briefcase" reference to use in the office as well as on the road Introduces the elements of the risk assessment process by defining its purpose and objectives, describing the behavioural and physical sciences, the techniques employed in the process, and the measurement and evaluation tools and standards used to perform an objective risk assessment.
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Year: 2,007
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 648
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Pages In File: 646
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Language: English
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Topic: 196
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Issue: до 2011-01
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Identifier: 0471799262,9780471799269
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Ddc: 363.325/720684
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Lcc: HV6432 .S85 2007
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Toc: Strategies for Protecting National Critical Infrastructure Assets: A Focus on Problem-Solving......Page 3 CONTENTS......Page 11 PART 1—UNDERSTANDING THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 39 What This Book is About......Page 41 Why This Book is Important......Page 42 Who Can Benefit From This Book......Page 44 How To Use This Book......Page 45 2 ENVIRONMENTS THAT INFLUENCE THE SECURITY ASSESSMENT: Threats, Western Values, and the National Critical Infrastructure Sectors......Page 51 2.1–Environments that influence the security assessment......Page 52 The Psychology of Terrorism......Page 53 2.2–Terrorists' long-term strategic objectives......Page 54 The Changing Face of Terrorism......Page 62 Most Dangerous Terrorist Group in the World......Page 70 Safeguarding American Values......Page 73 2.4–Demography, The American Population......Page 75 The Importance of the National Critical Infrastructure Sectors......Page 76 The Protection Challenge......Page 77 The Importance of Key Assets......Page 79 Conclusion......Page 80 2.3–America's values in contrast with tyranny's oppression......Page 74 2.5–The protection challenge......Page 78 PART II—UNDERSTANDING SECURITY ASSESSMENTS......Page 83 Security is About Minimizing Risk......Page 85 The Changing Threat Environment......Page 88 Corporate America is Adjusting to the Changing Threat Environment......Page 89 Which Security Assessment Model is Best?......Page 91 Conclusion......Page 92 The Security-Assessment Challenge......Page 93 Analysis of Several Industry Models......Page 95 FEMA Antiterrorism Design Criter