Design and Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems
Design and Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems

Author: Mary Lynn Garcia

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2007-09-26

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0080554288

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Design and Evaluation of Physical Security Systems, Second Edition, includes updated references to security expectations and changes since 9/11. The threat chapter includes references to new threat capabilities in Weapons of Mass Destruction, and a new figure on hate crime groups in the US. All the technology chapters have been reviewed and updated to include technology in use since 2001, when the first edition was published. Garcia has also added a new chapter that shows how the methodology described in the book is applied in transportation systems. College faculty who have adopted this text have suggested improvements and these have been incorporated as well. This second edition also includes some references to the author's recent book on Vulnerability Assessment, to link the two volumes at a high level. - New chapter on transportation systems - Extensively updated chapter on threat definition - Major changes to response chapter

Effective Physical Security
Effective Physical Security

Author: Lawrence J. Fennelly

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 0128044950

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Effective Physical Security, Fifth Edition is a best-practices compendium that details the essential elements and latest developments in physical security protection. This new edition is completely updated, with new chapters carefully selected from the author's work that set the standard. This book contains important coverage of environmental design, security surveys, locks, lighting, and CCTV, the latest ISO standards for risk assessment and risk management, physical security planning, network systems infrastructure, and environmental design. - Provides detailed coverage of physical security in an easily accessible format - Presents information that should be required reading for ASIS International's Physical Security Professional (PSP) certification - Incorporates expert contributors in the field of physical security, while maintaining a consistent flow and style - Serves the needs of multiple audiences, as both a textbook and professional desk reference - Blends theory and practice, with a specific focus on today's global business and societal environment, and the associated security, safety, and asset protection challenges - Includes useful information on the various and many aids appearing in the book - Features terminology, references, websites, appendices to chapters, and checklists

Discerning President Obama's National Security Strategy
Discerning President Obama's National Security Strategy

Author: Lovelace Douglas

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 0199758204

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Volume 112 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Discerning President Obama's National Defense Strategy, makes available documents from the first fifteen months of the Obama administration that provide insights into its developing national defense strategy. Included are documents specifically relating to the U.S. Department of Defense and the nation's armed forces. Included is the February 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Report of the Department of Defense, one of the most significant documents providing insight into the defense component of national security. General Editor Douglas Lovelace, an expert in U.S. military matters, elucidates the complexities of military spending and of counter-insurgency tactics. Also included are reports detailing the strategy and performance of government agencies involved in the security effort, such as the Department of Homeland Security. These reports shed light on internal department assessments as well as external evaluations. Finally, strategy documents produced by the U.S. armed forces describe the national security policy being implemented by the nation's senior military leaders. Researchers will benefit from the focused and comprehensive nature of these reports.

Physical Security in the Process Industry
Physical Security in the Process Industry

Author: Gabriele Landucci

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2020-01-30

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 044464055X

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Physical Security in the Process Industry: Theory with Applications deals with physical security in the field of critical infrastructures where hazardous materials are a factor, along with the state-of-the-art thinking and modeling methods for enhancing physical security. The book offers approaches based on scientific insights, mainly addressing terrorist attacks. Moreover, the use of innovative techniques is explained, including Bayesian networks, game-theory and petri-networks. Dealing with economic parameters and constraints and calculating the costs and benefits of security measures are also included. The book will be of interest to security (and safety) scientists, security managers and the public at large. - Discusses how to achieve inherent physical security using a scientific approach - Explores how to take adequate add-on physical security measures - Covers risk assessment tools and applications for practical use in the industry - Demonstrates how to optimize security decisions using security models and approaches - Considers economic aspects of security decisions

The Navy Yard Tragedy
The Navy Yard Tragedy

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control Systems
Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control Systems

Author: Alfredo Vaccaro

Publisher: IET

Published: 2016-08-04

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1849198306

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Wide area monitoring, protection and control systems (WAMPACs) have been recognized as the most promising enabling technologies to meet challenges of modern electric power transmission systems, where reliability, economics, environmental and other social objectives must be balanced to optimize the grid assets and satisfy growing electrical demand. To this aim WAMPAC requires precise phasor and frequency information, which are acquired by deploying multiple time synchronized sensors, known as Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs), providing precise synchronized information about voltage and current phasors, frequency and rate-of-change-of-frequency.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents Index IV
Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents Index IV

Author: Kristen Boon

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0199758999

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With the publication of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Index IV, Oxford University Press continues to provide periodic stand-alone volumes containing cumulative indexes for the individual volumes in the series. Index IV (covering Terrorism Vols. 101-120) adds to the previous index volumes in order to ensure comprehensive searchability within the series. The availability of the cumulative index as well as the volume-specific indexes makes the series more convenient for the reader and provides the researcher with multiple ways to search for information. Index IV also features improved double-columned index formatting, for ease of use in a more compact volume. Although each volume in Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents contains its own volume-specific index, this comprehensive index fully indexes the last twenty volumes in the Terrorism series. Only subject indexes are included in the individual volumes, whereas this comprehensive index includes five different types of indexes including a subject index, an index organized according to the title of the document, an index based on the name of the document's author, an index correlated to the year of the document, and a subject-by-year index. This cumulative index volume therefore provides readers with multiple ways to conduct research within Volumes 101-120 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents.

Homeland Security
Homeland Security

Author: Mark L. Goldstein

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1437925928

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There is ongoing concern about the security of federal buildings and their occupants. The Federal Protective Service (FPS) within the Dept. of Homeland Security is responsible for providing law enforcement and related security services for nearly 9,000 federal buildings under the control and custody of the General Services Admin. (GSA). In 2004, a set of key protection practices from the collective practices of federal agencies and the private sector was identified that included: allocating resources using risk management, leveraging technology, and information sharing and coordination. This report determined whether FPS's security efforts for GSA buildings reflected key practices. Includes recommendations. Illustrations.