Transportation Systems Security

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Highlighting the importance of transportation to a country’s infrastructure and survival, Transportation Systems Security presents the strategic and practical considerations involved in the implementation of physical, procedural, and managerial safeguards required to keep all modes of transportation up and running during an actual or potential disaster.
Structured in an easy cognitive fashion, the book begins with a basic introduction providing terms a… More >>

Transportation Systems Security

Managing Security Overseas: Protecting Employees and Assets in Volatile Regions

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Threats to multinational corporations come in two forms: natural and man-made. This book illustrates the types of risks that confront corporations when working outside of North America. It provides key tools and understanding that are required to do business in a safe and secure manner, no matter the level of risk. It walks through a logical framework for safety and security program development from Day One. Using real-world case studies and examples, the book is … More >>

Managing Security Overseas: Protecting Employees and Assets in Volatile Regions

Terrorism and Homeland Security: Perspectives, Thoughts, and Opinions

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An examination of the causes and effects of terrorism and the complicated issues surrounding homeland security, this thought provoking anthology covers surveillance issues, female terrorist activity, and secret societies as well as Law enforcement and the perceived terrorism-Muslim connection. Additional topics include the future of terrorism, perceptions and meanings of homeland security, border security, propaganda, the internet, funding of terrorism, and intell… More >>

Terrorism and Homeland Security: Perspectives, Thoughts, and Opinions

Urbanization, Policing, and Security: Global Perspectives

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In terms of raw numbers, the amount of world urban dwellers have increased four-fold, skyrocketing from 740 million in 1950 to almost 3.3 billion in 2007. This ongoing urbanization will continue to create major security challenges in most countries. Based on contributions from academics and practitioners from countries as diverse as Nigeria, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, and the US, Urbanization, Policing, and Security: Global Perspectives highlights the cr… More >>

Urbanization, Policing, and Security: Global Perspectives

Private Security and the Investigative Process, Third Edition

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Individuals, businesses, industry, attorneys, various government agencies, and organizational entities across a broad spectrum look to the security investigator to collect information, facts, and evidence to resolve disputes. In a general sense, the security investigator lays a conceptual framework, upon which cases can be evaluated, decisions can be made, and action can be taken. Detailing best practice techniques and trade secrets for private sector security inve… More >>

Private Security and the Investigative Process, Third Edition

Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Second Edition

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The Maturation of Homeland Security: Moving to a Networked Response Improved coordination and planning can now allow us a quick return to business as usual Since the first edition of Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness published almost four years ago, significant advances in how we approach the safekeeping of our nation’s most critical infrastructures have come to fruition. To k… More >>

Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Second Edition

21st Century Security and CPTED: Designing for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Crime Prevention

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Once overlooked as a minor and ineffective tactic in the mitigation and prevention of terrorism and violent crime, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) has undergone dramatic changes since the September 11 attacks. The most up-to-date reevaluation of CPTED since 2000, 21st Century Security and CPTED reflects updates and amendments to the rules for security in the built environment and presents the knowledge and practice of CPTED as applied to… More >>

21st Century Security and CPTED: Designing for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Crime Prevention

Protection, Security, and Safeguards: Practical Approaches and Perspectives

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Our need for security has not waned since the dawn of civilization – it has only increased and become more complicated. Protection, Security, and Safeguards: Practical Approaches and Perspectives draws on the security prowess of former secret service agents and other notable security professionals as the authors touch on nearly every facet of the industry.Written to satisfy the practical needs of anyone in the business of protection, the text covers areas such as pe… More >>

Protection, Security, and Safeguards: Practical Approaches and Perspectives

Cyber Crime Investigations: Bridging the Gaps Between Security Professionals, Law Enforcement, and Prosecutors

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Written by a former NYPD cyber cop, this is the only book available that discusses the hard questions cyber crime investigators are asking.

The book begins with the chapter “What is Cyber Crime?” This introductory chapter describes the most common challenges faced by cyber investigators today. The following chapters discuss the methodologies behind cyber investigations; and frequently encountered pitfalls. Issues relating to cyber crime definitions, the elect… More >>

Cyber Crime Investigations: Bridging the Gaps Between Security Professionals, Law Enforcement, and Prosecutors

Oracle Forensics: Oracle Security Best Practices

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Instructions on proactively ensuring the safety and security of Oracle data are found in this innovative guide to Oracle Forensics techniques. Packed with insights and expert tips, this definitive reference provides strategies for protecting critical data from a variety of outside threats and for boosting the overall effectiveness of Oracle firewalls. Additional instructions for developing an automated framework for accessing database security make this required … More >>

Oracle Forensics: Oracle Security Best Practices