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Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security: Defending a Networked Nation

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Interscience
Year
2006
ISBN
9780471786283, 0471786284
LCC
QA76.9.A25 L5 2006
Open Library ID
OL3410309M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (8998398 bytes)
Pages
488\488
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

This book offers a unique scientific approach to the new field of critical infrastructure protection: it uses network theory, optimization theory, and simulation software to analyze and understand how infrastructure sectors evolve, where they are vulnerable, and how they can best be protected. The author demonstrates that infrastructure sectors as diverse as water, power, energy, telecommunications, and the Internet have remarkably similar structures. This observation leads to a rigorous approach to vulnerability analysis in all of these sectors. The analyst can then decide the best way to allocate limited funds to minimize risk, regardless of industry sector.

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