Assessing Nuclear Security Risks in Pakistan

Assessing and Addressing US Health Security Risks

T here are a range of worrisome threats to US health and national security—worrisome because they have the potential to cause widespread disruption and damage to the public's health and to the US and global economies. These threats include major natural hazards like large earthquakes and hurricanes and infectious disease pandemics ; accidental threats, including technological failures, such as ...

New Frontiers: Assessing and Managing Security Risks

Countering Security Risks to Nuclear Power Plants

Between 1972 and 2007 altogether 17 major terror attacks or acts of sabotage have been carried against nuclear power plants (NPP). None of them resulted in an uncontrolled radioactive release. In order to reduce the security risk to NPP due to terrorists in the future, preemptive measures are necessary to identify their motivation, incentives, operational and logistical capabilities to implemen...

Online Social Media Networking and Assessing Its Security Risks

Over the past several years, we have seen the emergence of new paradigm in the Internet, online social media networking, which provide Internet users to communicate and collaborate with family, friends, social groups, and other community by using social media tools (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and Youtube). The use of social media for communication is becoming more prevalent worldwide, wi...

Genre-Based Approach to Assessing Information and Knowledge Security Risks

Contemporary methods for assessing information security risks have adopted mainly technical views on information and technology assets. Organizational dynamics of information management and knowledge sharing have gained less attention. This article outlines a new, genre-based, approach to information security risk assessment in order to orientate toward organizationand knowledge-centric identif...