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Informationen zum Autor Clifton L. Smith, PhD is a retired Associate Professor of Security Science in the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. He developed their Security Science programs (BS, MS, and PhD) beginning in the 1980s, and helped establish their Security Science Research and Test Laboratory. He continues to conduct research in ballistics imaging, security knowledge and understanding, biometric imaging, and security education. Professor Smith has consulted in Australia, Southeast Asia, UK and India on security training programs, physical security audits, CCTV and infrared surveillance techniques, security lighting evaluation, and perimeter technology testing. David J Brooks, PhD, is Senior Lecturer and research leader at Edith Cowan University, Australia, teaching and researching Security Science. Dr. Brooks specializes in security knowledge structure, security risk management and security technology. Past positions include the Australian Defence Force West Australian Infrastructure Plant Contract Manager, Senior Security Consultant with AMLEC House consulting group and others, and military service in the Royal Air Force, Air Defence group. Current research involves developing the theory of entropic security decay, defeat testing of security technology, use of resilience as an aid to National Security Vetting and Building Management System vulnerabilities. Klappentext Security has evolved rapidly in the last decade, but there is no consensus on a security body of knowledge. Security Sciences offers a proposal aimed at filling this gap. Students and active professionals worldwide can benefit from the high-level technical content and systematic approach to improving security. Smith and Brooks draw on their decades of security practice, teaching, and research and development experience to present an overview of current theory and practice in crucial areas like business continuity, security risk management, and intelligence-led security. This book offers a more quantitative model for developing security policies, procedures, and technology. The authors make proposals that may be controversial. Particularly in the United States, homeland security measures have sometimes been driven by ideology more than by science or experimental evidence of effectiveness. Smith and Brooks challenge practitioners and academics to move away from decisions based on intuition or conventional wisdom in the direction of an interdisciplinary security science, and offer them tools for the battle to protect our most precious assets. Zusammenfassung Integrates the multi-disciplined practice areas of security into a single structured body of knowledge! where each chapter takes an evidence-based approach to one of the core knowledge categories. This book provides a rational basis for complex decisions and begins the process of defining the emerging discipline of security science. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Concept of Security2. Security Risk Management3. Security Management4. Business Continuity Management5. Physical Security6. Security Detection7. Knowledge Management8. Intelligence Led Security9. Built Environments10. Homeland Security11. Future Directions ...
