The Science and Technology of Counterterrorism
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Measuring Physical and Electronic Security Risk
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Description
Scientists with little or no background in security and security professionals with little or no background in science and technology often have difficulty communicating in order to implement the best counterterrorism strategies. The Science and Technology of Counterterrorism offers the necessary theoretical foundation to address real-world terrorism scenarios, effectively bridging the gap. It provides a powerful security assessment methodology, coupled with counterterrorism strategies that are applicable to all terrorism attack vectors. These include biological, chemical, radiological, electromagnetic, explosive, and electronic or cyber attacks. In addition to rigorous estimates of threat vulnerabilities and the effectiveness of risk mitigation, it provides meaningful terrorism risk metrics.
The Science and Technology of Counterterrorism teaches the reader how to think about terrorism risk, and evaluates terrorism scenarios and counterterrorism technologies with sophistication punctuated by humor. Both students and security professionals will significantly benefit from the risk assessment methodologies and guidance on appropriate counterterrorism measures contained within this book.
Key Features
- Offers a simple but effective analytic framework to assess counterterrorism risk and realistic measures to address threats
- Provides the essential scientific principles and tools required for this analysis
- Explores the increasingly important relationship between physical and electronic risk in meaningful technical detail
- Evaluates technical security systems to illustrate specific risks using concrete examples
Readership
Security and counterterrorism practitioners; engineers and scientists in terrorism-related fields; students of security or security technologies
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Preface
Part I: Modeling Terrorism Risk
Chapter 1: Terrorism Threats, Risk, and Risk Assessments
1.1 Introduction: Decisions and Risk
1.2 Threats and the Components of Risk
1.3 Risk Assessments
1.4 Security Risk Trade-Offs
1.5 Security Risk in Context
1.6 Risk Factors
1.7 Counterterrorism Controls
1.8 Counterterrorism Methods
1.9 Operational Requirements
1.10 Performance Specifications
1.11 Security Risk Assessment Frameworks, Security Standards, and Security Risk Metrics
Summary
Problems
Chapter 2: Organizing and Assessing Terrorism Risk
2.1 A Taxonomy of Terrorism Threats
2.2 Counterterrorism Standards and Risk Metrics
2.3 The Cost of Risk Mitigation
2.4 Medical Analogies
2.5 Simple Risk Assessments
2.6 Security Theatre
Summary
Problems
Chapter 3: Uncertainty and Terrorism
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Uncertainty, Entropy, and Randomness
3.3 The Normal Distribution
3.4 Uncertainty Applied to Terrorism
Summary
Problems
Chapter 4: Physical Models of Terrorism
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Point Sources of Radiation
4.3 Exponential Growth and Decay
4.4 Harmonic Motion and the Single Degree of Freedom Model
4.5 Gaussian Plumes
Summary
Problems
Supplementary Problems
Chapter 5: Exploiting Terrorism Uncertainty
5.1 Introduction: Addressing Terrorism Risk Factors
5.2 Risk Factor-Related Incidents; Indirect Measurements of Security Risk
5.3 The "Probability of Protection" Method
5.4 The Probability of Protection Method Summary
5.5 Physical Access Control System Risk Statistics
Summary
Problems
Part II: Measuring Terrorism Risk
Chapter 6: Conventional Explosive Threats and Risk Mitigation
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Applying the Single Degree of Freedom Model
6.3 Explosive Overpressure and Impulse Parametric Scaling
6.4 Blast Effects: A Qualitative Description
6.5 The Effects of Distance and Payload
6.6 Vehicle-Borne Explosives
6.7 Vehicle-Borne Explosive Risk: A Simple Calculation
6.8 Barriers and Bollards
6.9 Assessing Bollard Effectiveness
6.10 Antiblast Film
6.11 Explosive Detection
6.12 X-Ray Inspection Technology
6.13 The Dangling Crane: Terror Without Terrorists
Summary
Problems
Chapter 7: Nontraditional Terrorist Threats and Risk Mitigation
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Radiological Dispersion Devices (RDDs)
7.3 Biological Threats and Risk
7.4 Chemical Threats and Risk
7.5 Electromagnetic Pulse Threats and Risk
Summary
Problems
Chapter 8: Electronic Terrorism Threats, Risk, and Risk Mitigation
8.1 Introduction to Electronic Security
8.2 Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attacks and Security Controls
8.3 Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)/Malware, Client-Side Exploits, and Security Controls
Summary
Problems
Chapter 9: The Convergence of Electronic and Physical Security Risk
9.1 Introduction: Cultural and Organizational Drivers of Security
9.2 Electronic and Physical Security Vulnerabilities of a Physical Access Control System
9.3 Physical Security of Data Centers
9.4 An Indicative Data Center Physical Security Standard
9.5 Virtualized Environments and the Concentration of Information Security Risk
9.6 The Integration of Physical and Electronic Security within Active Directory
9.7 Physical Security Risk and Electronic Vulnerabilities
Summary
Problems
Part III: Counterterrorism Controls
Chapter 10: Authentication, Authorization, and Affiliation
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Organizational Affiliation
10.3 Background Investigations
10.4 Insider Threats and Risk Mitigation
10.5 A Mantra for Affiliation
10.6 Confirming Authorization for Access to Restricted Space
10.7 Physical Access Control IDs and Credentials
10.8 Contactless Smart Cards and Proximity Cards
10.9 Radiofrequency IDs (RFID)
10.10 The Security of Contactless Smart Cards Versus Magnetic Stripe Technologies
10.11 Multifactor Authentication of Identity
10.12 Biometric Authentication of Identity
Summary
Problems
Chapter 11: Closed Circuit Television
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Analog and IP CCTV Cameras
11.3 CCTV Cameras and Optics
11.4 Lighting
11.5 Focal Length and f-Number
11.6 Angle-of-View and Field-of-View
11.7 Depth-of-Field
11.8 Sensitivity
11.9 Signal-to-Noise (S/N) Ratio
11.10 CCTV Image Creation
11.11 CCTV Image Recording
11.12 CCTV Signal Bandwidth and Storage Requirements
11.13 CCTV Image Resolution
11.14 Resolution Requirements for Submegapixel CCTV Systems
11.15 Resolution Requirements for Megapixel CCTV Systems
11.16 CCTV Video Compression
11.17 CCTV and Security Systems Integration
11.18 CCTV Cabling
11.19 CCTV Signal Security
11.20 CCTV Operational Summary
11.21 Special CCTV System Requirements
11.22 CCTV System Performance Specifications
Summary
Chapter 12: Physical Access Restriction, Incident Detection, and Scenario Monitoring
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Electric Strikes and Magnetic Locks
12.3 Doors and Portals
12.4 The Ten Plus One Commandments of Physical Access
12.5 The Importance of Physical Access Control System Specifications
12.6 Physical Access Control System Architecture and Signaling
12.7 Physical Access Control System Specifications
12.8 Security Incident Monitoring and Detection
Summary
Problems
Epilogue
Appendix A: Linearity, Nonlinearity, and Parametric Scaling
Appendix B: Exponents, Logarithms, and Sensitivity to Change
Appendix C: The Exponential Functions ex and e− x
Appendix D: The Decibel (dB)
Appendix E: Parameters for Anti-Explosive and Bullet-Resistant Window Treatments
Appendix F: Half-Life
Appendix G: Near Fields from Radiated Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) Power Data
Deduction of M from the Radiated Power
Magnetic Field Magnitude in the Near Field
Index
Details
- No. of pages:
- 512
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Butterworth-Heinemann 2015
- Published:
- 12th March 2014
- Imprint:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN:
- 9780124200562
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780124200616
About the Author
Carl Young
Carl S. Young is a recognized subject matter expert in information and physical security risk management. He is currently a Managing Director and the Chief Security Officer at Stroz Friedberg, an international security risk consulting firm. He is the former Global Head of Physical Security Technology at Goldman Sachs as well as a former Senior Executive and Supervisory Special Agent at the FBI. He was also a consultant to the JASON Defense Advisory Group. Mr. Young is the author of Metrics and Methods for Security Risk Management (Syngress, 2010), and The Science and Technology of Counterterrorism (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2014) as well as numerous journal publications. In 1997 he was awarded the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) James R. Killian Award by the White House for significant individual contributions to U.S. national security. Mr. Young received undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics and physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Affiliations and Expertise
Managing Director and Chief Security Officer, Stroz Friedberg and Adjunct Professor, John Jay College, City University of New York, NY, USA
Reviews
"After completing the entire book and applying its lessons, the security professional may have the means to better justify security-related expenditures by using math and science to explain the effectiveness of the proposed technology."--ASIS Dynamics Newsletter, February 2015
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