Freedom and information assessing publicly available data regarding U.S. transportation infrastructure security

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...

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Autor principal: Landree, Eric (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Monica, CA : Rand Homeland Security 2006.
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
RAND Corporation Technical report.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario: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 attackers to find. For each of the attack scenarios, a team of 'attackers' was unable to locate some of the information that a terrorist planner would need to gauge the likely success of a potential attack. The authors recommend that procedures for securing sensitive information be evaluated regularly and that information that can be obtained from easily accessible, off-site public information sources be included in vulnerability assessments.
Descripción Física:1 recurso electrónico (xviii, 92 p.) : il., mapa
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
ISBN:9780833042859