Homeland Security Assessment Manual: An Organizational Assessment Based on Baldridge Criteria

What Has Homeland Security Cost? An Assessment: 2001-2005

While homeland security is widely seen as an important national objective, the costs of this effort are not well understood. An analysis of public and private expenditures on homeland security shows that overall spending rose by $34 billion between 2001 and 2005—a clear increase but one that represents a gain of only 1⁄4 of 1 percent as a share of U.S. GDP. Private sector expenditures increased...

Combining Security Risk Assessment and Security Testing Based on Standards

Managing cyber security has become increasingly important due to the growing interconnectivity of computerized systems and their use in society. A comprehensive assessment of cyber security can be challenging as its spans across different domains of knowledge and expertise. For instance, identifying cyber security vulnerabilities requires detailed technical expertise and knowledge, while the as...

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Risk Based Voltage Security Assessment

The objective of this paper is to provide a risk-based approach to security assessment for a voltage stability constrained power system. It is motivated by a perception that today’s deterministic reliability criteria to voltage stability assessment often results in operating restrictions that are not commensurate with the corresponding level of risk. The risk calculation provided in this paper ...

An Agent-Based Approach for Data Fusion in Homeland Security

— This article presents an agent-based solution for data fusion in Homeland Security. Communication technology has been developed very fast in the last decades. We can get lots of data in milliseconds. Our current problem is to process such amounts of data in order to provide useful information. We have to focus our effort on developing intelligent information systems able to handle big amounts...