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

The Resource Freedom and information : assessing publicly available data regarding U.S. transportation infrastructure security
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Freedom and information : assessing publicly available data regarding U.S. transportation infrastructure security
Title remainder
assessing publicly available data regarding U.S. transportation infrastructure security
Statement of responsibility
Eric Landree [and others]
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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
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Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
363.325/93880973
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
no index present
LC call number
HV6432
LC item number
.L363 2006eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Technical report

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