1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911138547503321

Autore

Garcia Mary Lynn

Titolo

Vulnerability assessment of physical protection systems / / Mary Lynn Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, c2006

ISBN

1-281-05212-4

9786611052126

0-08-048167-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/73

Soggetti

Security systems - Evaluation

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Vulnerability Assessment; Risk Management and Vulnerability Assessment; Risk Assessment and the Vulnerability Assessment Process; Statistics and Quantitative Analysis; Vulnerability Assessment Process Overview; Planning the Vulnerability Assessment; Project Management; Establish the Vulnerability Assessment Team; Project Kick-Off Meetings; Protection Objectives; Facility Characterization; Data Collection-Detection; Intrusion Sensors; Alarm Assessment; Entry Control; Alarm Communication and Display

Data Collection-Delay Data Collection-Response; Analysis; Reporting and Using the Vulnerability Assessment; Systems Engineering and Vulnerability Assessment; System Requirements; System Design and Analysis; System Installation and Test; System Replacement; Summary; References; CHAPTER 2 Physical Protection Systems Principles and Concepts; Physical Protection Systems Overview; Physical Protection System Design; PPS Functions; Detection; Delay; Response; Relationship of PPS Functions; Characteristics of an Effective PPS; Protection-in-Depth; Minimum Consequence of Component Failure

Balanced Protection Design and Evaluation Criteria; Additional Design Elements; Summary; Reference; CHAPTER 3 Getting Started; Project Management; Phase One-Project Planning; Initial Customer Contact; Define the Project; Phase Two-Managing the Project; Project Status and



Reporting; Recovery Plans; Project Management Tools; Project Closeout; Project Management Summary; Establish a Vulnerability Assessment Team; Vulnerability Assessment Project Leader; Systems Engineer; Security System Engineer; SME-Intrusion Sensing Subsystem; SME-Alarm Assessment Subsystem

SME-Alarm Communication & Display (AC&D) Subsystem SME-Entry Control Subsystem; SME-Delay Subsystem; SME-Response Subsystem; SME-Communications Subsystem; SME-Analyst; Special Note for Response Force Simulations; Participation of On-Site Personnel; Kick-Off Meetings for Project Team and Customer; Project Team Kick-Off Meeting; VA Team Guide; Site Information; Customer Kick-Off Meeting; Summary; References; CHAPTER 4 VA Process Inputs - Establish Protection Objectives; Defining the Threat; Listing Information Needed; Collecting Information; Organizing Information; Threat Definition Methods

Insider Threat Other Notes on Threat Definition; Estimating Likelihood of Attack; Asset Identification; Asset Identification Methods; Manual Listing; Logic Diagrams; Criteria; Threat/Asset Matrix; Facility Characterization; Characterization Tools; Facility States; Security Checklists; Summary; References; CHAPTER 5 Data Collection - Intrusion Detection Subsystem; Sensor Overview; Exterior Intrusion Sensor Technologies and Evaluation; Freestanding Sensors; Exterior Microwave Sensors; Electric-field Sensors; Freestanding Sensors Summary; Buried-Line Sensors; Ported Coaxial Sensors

Buried-Line Sensors Summary

Sommario/riassunto

Vulnerability Assessment of Physical Protection Systems will describe the entire vulnerability assessment (VA) process, from the start of planning through final analysis and out brief to senior management. The text will draw heavily on the principles introduced in the author's best-selling Design and Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems and allow readers to apply those principles and conduct a VA that is aligned with system objectives and achievable with existing budget and personnel resources. The book will address the full spectrum of a VA, including negotiating tasks with the customer,



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911150020303321

Titolo

Live variola virus : considerations for continuing research / / Committee on the Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Live Variola Virus; Board on Global Health ; Ann M. Arvin and Deepali M. Patel, editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612412561

9781282412569

1282412566

9780309136914

0309136911

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ArvinAnn M

PatelDeepali

Disciplina

616.912

Soggetti

Smallpox - Research

Smallpox - Prevention

Smallpox vaccine

Virology - Cultures and culture media

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

""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Overview of Smallpox and Its Surveillance and Control""; ""3 Comparative Poxvirology""; ""4 Animal Models Using Variola and Other Orthopoxviruses""; ""5 Genomic Analysis""; ""6 Development of Therapeutics""; ""7 Development of Vaccines""; ""8 Methods for Detection and Diagnosis""; ""9 Discovery Research""; ""10 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""Appendix: Variola Strains Used to Validate Diagnostic and Detection Assays""

Sommario/riassunto

Smallpox was a devastating disease that decimated human populations for centuries, and its eradication in 1980 was a monumental achievement for the global health community. Since then the remaining known strains of its causative agent, variola virus, have been contained



in two World Health Organization (WHO)-approved repositories.  In 1999, the World Health Assembly (WHA) debated the issue of destroying these remaining strains. Arguments were presented on the need to retain the live virus for use in additional important research, and the decision to destroy the virus was deferred until this research could be completed. In that same year, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened a consensus committee to explore scientific needs for the live virus.  In the ten years since the first IOM report, the scientific, political, and regulatory environments have changed. In this new climate, the IOM was once again tasked to consider scientific needs for live variola virus. The committee evaluated the scientific need for live variola virus in four areas: development of therapeutics, development of vaccines, genomic analysis, and discovery research.