Format:
1 online resource (399 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9781118817704
Content:
"...excellent for use as a text in information assurance or cyber-security courses...I strongly advocate that professors...examine this book with the intention of using it in their programs." (Computing Reviews.com, March 22, 2007) "The book is written as a student textbook, but it should be equally valuable for current practitioners...this book is a very worthwhile investment." (Homeland Security Watch, August 17, 2006) While the emphasis is on the development of policies that lead to successful prevention of terrorist attacks on the nation's infrastructure, this book is the first scientific study of critical infrastructures and their protection. The book models the nation's most valuable physical assets and infrastructure sectors as networks of nodes and links. It then analyzes the network to identify vulnerabilities and risks in the sector combining network science, complexity theory, modeling and simulation, and risk analysis. The most critical components become the focus of deeper analysis and protection. This approach reduces the complex problem of protecting water supplies, energy pipelines, telecommunication stations, Internet and Web networks, and power grids to a much simpler problem of protecting a few critical nodes. The new edition incorporates a broader selection of ideas and sectors and moves the mathematical topics into several appendices.
Content:
Intro -- Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security: Defending a Networked Nation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- How to Use this Book -- Acknowledgment -- Part I Origins of Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Policy -- Chapter 1 Origins of Critical Infrastructure Protection -- 1.1 Recognition -- 1.2 Natural Disaster Recovery -- 1.3 Definitional Phase -- 1.4 Public-Private Cooperation -- 1.5 Federalism: Whole of Government -- 1.6 Infrastructure Protection within DHS -- 1.7 Implementing a Risk Strategy -- 1.7.1 Risk-Informed Decision-Making -- 1.7.2 Resilience-Informed Decision-Making -- 1.7.3 Prevention or Response? -- 1.8 Analysis -- 1.8.1 The PPP Conundrum -- 1.8.2 The Information-Sharing Conundrum -- 1.8.3 Climate Change Conundrum -- 1.8.4 The Funding Conundrum -- 1.8.5 Spend 80% on 20% of the Country -- 1.9 Exercises -- References -- Part II Theory and Foundations -- Chapter 2 Risk Strategies -- 2.1 EUT -- 2.1.1 Threat-Asset Pairs -- 2.2 PRA and Fault Trees -- 2.2.1 An Example: Your Car -- 2.3 MBRA and Resource Allocation -- 2.3.1 Another Example: Redundant Power -- 2.4 PRA in the Supply Chain -- 2.5 Protection versus Response -- 2.6 Threat Is an Output -- 2.7 Bayesian Belief Networks -- 2.8 A BN for Threat -- 2.9 Risk of a Natural Disaster -- 2.10 Earthquakes -- 2.11 Black Swans and Risk -- 2.12 Black Swan Floods -- 2.13 Are Natural Disasters Getting Worse? -- 2.14 Black Swan al Qaeda Attacks -- 2.15 Black Swan Pandemic -- 2.16 Risk and Resilience -- 2.17 Exercises -- References -- Chapter 3 Theories of Catastrophe -- 3.1 NAT -- 3.2 Blocks and Springs -- 3.3 Bak's Punctuated Equilibrium Theory -- 3.4 TOC -- 3.4.1 The State Space Diagram -- 3.5 The U.S. Electric Power Grid -- 3.6 POE -- 3.6.1 The Great Recessions -- 3.6.2 Too Much Money -- 3.7 Competitive Exclusion -- 3.7.1 Gause's Law.
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Additional Edition:
9781118817636
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781118817636
Language:
English
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