Reporting on the significant strides made in securing and protecting our nation‘s infrastructures, this timely and accessible resource examines emergency responsiveness and other issues vital to national homeland security. Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness details the important measures that have been tak
This book analyzes the security of critical infrastructures such as road, rail, water, health, and electricity networks that are vital for a nation’s society and economy, and assesses the resilience of these networks to intentional ...
The array of physical assets, functions, and systems across which these goods and services move are called critical infrastructures (CI) (e.g., electricity, the power plants that generate it, and the electric grid upon which it is ...
This book contains a selection of 27 edited papers from the First Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection.
This book presents the latest trends in attacks and protection methods of Critical Infrastructures.
This book is the second volume in the annual series produced by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 11.10 on Critical Infrastructure Protection, an international community of scientists, engineers, ...
In addition, we can estimate the consequence of failure. Risk is the product of these two properties of the threat–asset pair. In this example, the probability of puncturing the tire with a sharp object in the road is converted to a ...
The 14 papers of this book present a collection of pieces of scientific work in the areas of critical infrastructure protection.
Since the first edition of this book was published in 2009, significant changes have occurred in the security landscape, both domestically and internationally.
This is a definite “must read” for consultants, plant managers, corporate risk managers, junior and senior engineers, and university students before they jump into their first technical assignment.
Based on the ideas generated in the brainstorming session, poke and play with the infrastructure some more. 6. More brainstorming. 7. Begin editing and prioritizing potential attacks and vulnerabilities so that the most promising can ...