Covers critical infrastructure protection, providing a rigorous
treatment of risk, resilience, complex adaptive systems, and sector
dependence Wide in scope, this classroom-tested book is the only
one to emphasize a scientific approach to protecting the key
infrastructures components of a nation. It analyzes the complex
network of entities that make up a nation's infrastructure, and
identifies vulnerabilities and risks in various sectors by
combining network science, complexity theory, risk analysis, and
modeling and simulation. This approach reduces the complex problem
of protecting water supplies, energy pipelines, telecommunication
stations, power grid, and Internet and Web networks to a much
simpler problem of protecting a few critical nodes. The new third
edition of Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security:
Defending a Networked Nation incorporates a broader selection of
ideas and sectors than the previous book. Divided into three
sections, the first part looks at the historical origins of
homeland security and critical infrastructure, and emphasizes
current policy. The second examines theory and foundations,
highlighting risk and resilience in the context of complexity
theory, network science, and the prevailing theories of
catastrophe. The last part covers the individual sectors, including
communications, internet, cyber threats, information technology,
social networks, SCADA, water and water treatment, energy, and
more. Covers theories of catastrophes, details of how sectors work,
and how to deal with the problem of critical infrastructure
protection's enormity and complexity Places great emphasis on
computer security and whole-community response Includes PowerPoint
slides for use by lecturers, as well as an instructor's guide with
answers to exercises Offers five robust appendices that augment the
non-mathematical chapters with more rigorous explanations and
mathematics Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland
Security, Third Edition is an important book for upper-division
undergraduates and first-year graduate students in political
science, history, public administration, and computer technology.
It will also be of great interest to professional security experts
and policymakers.
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