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Record Nr.

UNINA9910219960803321

Autore

Landree Eric

Titolo

Freedom and information : assessing publicly available data regarding U.S. transportation infrastructure security / / Eric Landree ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, CA, : Rand Homeland Security, 2006

ISBN

1-281-18124-2

9786611181246

0-8330-4285-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (111 p.)

Collana

Technical report

Disciplina

363.325/93880973

Soggetti

Terrorism - United States - Prevention - Evaluation

Terrorism risk assessment - United States

Transportation - Effect of terrorism on - United States

Transportation - Security measures - United States

Infrastructure (Economics) - United States - Safety measures

National security - United States - Planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Defining terrorists' information requirements : the ModIPB framework -- Summary of red team findings and validation -- Conclusions and recommendations.

Sommario/riassunto

How much data regarding U.S. anti- and counterterrorism systems, countermeasures, and defenses is publicly available and how easily could it be found by individuals seeking to harm U.S. domestic interests? The authors developed a framework to guide assessments of the availability of such information for planning attacks on the U.S. air, rail, and sea transportation infrastructure, and applied the framework in an information-gathering exercise that used several attack scenarios. Overall, the framework was useful for assessing what kind of information would be easy or hard for potential attacker