Utility Security: The New Paradigm - Hardcover

Seger, Karl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878148825 ISBN 13: 9780878148820

Publisher: PennWell Corp., 2003

Synopsis

The paradigm shifted radically on 9/11, pushing utility security to priority status. Utility Security: The New Paradigm addresses the real threats to utility systems and provides a step-by-step approach to assessing vulnerabilities and developing and implementing security countermeasures. Included in the book are threat assessment and security checklists, as well as a vulnerability/countermeasure matrix and sample security and workplace violence prevention policies.

About this title

About the Author:

Karl A. Seger, Ph.D., has provided anti-terrorism consulting and training for all branches of the U.S. military, the Departments of Justice and the Treasury, and for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He received a grant prior to the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee to conduct a terrorism threat assessment for the event and to train local police in preparation for it. Dr. Seger assisted in the development of the Army's terrorism counteraction program in the 1980's and he was the contract writer for Tn9-16, Countering Terrorism on US Army Installations. This text was used by the Army's Terrorism Counteraction course from 1982 through 1995. He is the author of the Antiterrorism Handbook (Presidio Press, 1990), co-author of Computer Crime: An Investigator's Handbook (O'Reilly & Associates, 1995), and author of Utility Security: The New Paradigm (PennWell Books, 2003). Dr. Seger provides security training and
consulting services for government and corporate clients around the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: PennWell Corp.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0878148825
• ISBN 13: 9780878148820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238