Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security: Defending a Networked Nation

Description

A scientific approach to the new field of critical infrastructure protection


This book offers a unique scientific approach to the new field of critical infrastructure protection: it uses network theory, optimization theory, and simulation software to analyze and understand how infrastructure sectors evolve, where they are vulnerable, and how they can best be protected. The author demonstrates that infrastructure sectors as diverse as water, power, energy, telecommunications, and the Internet have remarkably similar structures. This observation leads to a rigorous approach to vulnerability analysis in all of these sectors. The analyst can then decide the best way to allocate limited funds to minimize risk, regardless of industry sector.

The key question addressed in this timely book is: What should be protected and how? The author proposes that the answer lies in allocating a nation's scarce resources to the most critical components of each infra-structure--the so-called critical nodes. Using network theory as a foundation, readers learn how to identifya small handful of critical nodes and then allocate resources to reduce or eliminate risk across the entire sector.

A comprehensive set of electronic media is provided on a CD-ROM in the back of the book that supports in-class and self-tutored instruction. Students can copy these professionally produced audio-video lectures onto a PC (Microsoft Windows(r) and Apple Macintosh(r) compatible) for repeated viewing at their own pace. Another unique feature of the book is the open-source software for demonstrating concepts and streamlining the math needed for vulnerability analysis. Updates, as well as a discussion forum, are available from www.CHDS.us.

This book is essential for all corporate, government agency, and military professionals tasked with assessingvulnerability and developing and implementing protection systems. In addition, the book is recommended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students studying national security, computing, and other disciplines where infrastructure security is an issue.

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Other editions

• 

  Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security: Defending a Networked Nation

  • 2019-12-17
  • 464 pages
  • Paperback
  • John Wiley & Sons
• 

  Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security: Defending a Networked Nation

  • 2019-11-25
  • 464 pages
  • Ebook
  • John Wiley & Sons
• 

  Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security: Defending a Networked Nation

  • 2014-11-17
  • 400 pages
  • Paperback
  • John Wiley & Sons
• 

  Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security: Defending a Networked Nation

  • 2014-10-13
  • 400 pages
  • Paperback
  • John Wiley & Sons

Similar books

• 

  Emerging Technologies in Hazardous Waste Management V

  By Daniel William Tedder, American Chemical Society. Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

  Reimann , G. A .; Grandy , J. D .; Eddy , T. L .; Anderson , G. L. In Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management Spectrum '92 ( Proc . ) ; American Nuclear Society , Inc. , La Grange Park , IL , 1992 ; Vol . 2 , pp . 1083-1088 . 3 .

• 

  Electronic Structure and Magnetism of Inorganic Compounds

  Verstegen, J. M. P. J., 160, 201, 215, 224 Vertman, A. A., 103 Vickery, L. E., 83 Vidaver, W., 231 Viinikka, E. K., ... P. R., 112 Wallace, W. E., 107 Walling, J. C, 65 Walnut, T. H., 112 Walther, D., 75 Walther, H., 231 Wang, J. T., ...

• 

  Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-base Balance: A Case Study Approach

  By Mima M. Horne, Ursula Easterday Heitz, Pamela L. Swearingen

  Lockhart JS and Griffin CW : Action stat : tetany , Nursing 88 18 ( 8 ) : 33 , 1988 . Malluche HH and Faugere M : Renal osteodystrophy , Mediguide to Nephrology 1 ( 1 ) : 1-8 , 1986 . Maxwell MH and others : Clinical disorders of fluid ...

• 

  Chemical Creativity: Ideas from the Work of Woodward, Hückel, Meerwein, and Others

  By Jerome A. Berson

  Thus, Turner's study (ref. 83) makes a case that Hitler's accession was by no means inevitable and that ... X as with so much in the mythology of his Third Reich, the belief that January 30”, 1933, marked a seizure of power was spurious ...

• 

  The Problems of Chemistry

  By William Graham Richards

  In this stimulating work, Graham Richards provides general readers and students with an authoritative introduction to the central problems currently faced by chemistry.

• 

  Boron and Nitrogen, Halogens

  By Anton Meller, Bruce R. Gragg

  [ 19 ] E. W. Kluger ( Diss . Drexel Univ . 1975 ; Diss . Abstr . Intern . B 36 ( 1976 ) 4487/8 ) . — [ 20 ] R. H. Cragg , M. Nazery , J. F. J. Todd , A. F. Weston ( J. Chem . Soc . Chem . Commun . 1973 386 ) . [ 21 ] B. Frange ( Bull .

• 

  Chemical Elements: G-O

  By David E. Newton

  Ernest Rutherford | English physicist That's the last potato I'll ever dig ! " That statement was attributed to young Ernest Rutherford , a native of New Zealand . Rutherford had applied for a scholarship to Cambridge University ...

• 

  Textbook of Polymer Science

  By Fred W. Billmeyer

  rubber subjected to the following thermal treatments : cool rapidly to – 40 ° C , hold for 24 hr ; raise rapidly to – 5 ... Bryant 1947. W. M. D. Bryant , “ Polythene Fine Structure , ” J. Polym . Sci . 2 , 547–564 ( 1947 ) . Bunn 1953.

• 

  Peer-led Team Learning: A Guidebook : the Workshop Project

  By David K. Gosser

  For example , an especially useful theoretical model for Workshop leaders is Perry's ( 1968 ) description of the intellectual and personal development of college students . This theory , originally developed at Harvard in the 1950s ...

• 

  名師這樣教，化學秒懂: 國中沒聽懂、從此變天書，漫畫＋大白話，基礎觀念一次救回來

  By 拉法艾拉．克雷先茨（Raffaella Crescenzi）、羅伯托．文森茨（Roberto Vincenzi）

  ★ 最受義大利學生歡迎的化學教材，亞馬遜青少年電子書第一名 ◎ 國小的有趣自然課，到了國中理化完全接不上，高中更是變天書？ ◎ ...