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Networks, Security and Complexity - The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,022
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Networks, Security and Complexity - The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection (Hardcover): Sean P. Gorman

Networks, Security and Complexity - The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection (Hardcover)

Sean P. Gorman

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The end of the 20th century witnessed an information revolution that introduced a host of new economic efficiencies. This economic change was underpinned by rapidly growing networks of infrastructure that have become increasingly complex. In this new era of global security we are now forced to ask whether our private efficiencies have led to public vulnerabilities, and if so, how do we make ourselves secure without hampering the economy. In order to answer these questions, Sean Gorman provides a framework for how vulnerabilities are identified and cost-effectively mitigated, as well as how resiliency and continuity of infrastructures can be increased. Networks, Security and Complexity goes on to address specific concerns such as determining criticality and interdependency, the most effective means of allocating scarce resources for defense, and whether diversity is a viable strategy. The author provides the economic, policy, and physics background to the issues of infrastructure security, along with tools for taking first steps in tackling these security dilemmas. He includes case studies of infrastructure failures and vulnerabilities, an analysis of threats to US infrastructure, and a review of the economics and geography of agglomeration and efficiency. This critical and controversial book will garner much attention and spark an important dialogue. Policymakers, security professionals, infrastructure operators, academics, and readers following homeland security issues will find this volume of great interest.

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Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2005
Authors: Sean P. Gorman
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 978-1-84376-952-1
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > General
Books > Computing & IT > Computer communications & networking > Network security
Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Databases > Data security & data encryption
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LSN: 1-84376-952-2
Barcode: 9781843769521

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