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Strategic Intelligence Management : National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akhgar, Babak.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Strategic aspects.
- Information technology -- Strategic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2013.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Strategic Intelligence Management: National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Organizations
- People
- About the Authors
- Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE QC
- Babak Akhgar
- Simon Andrews
- Liz Bacon
- David Chadwick
- Mohammad Dastbaz
- David Fortune
- Dimitrios Frangiskatos
- Peter Fussey
- Diane Gan
- Edward Halpin
- Christopher P. Holstege
- Hamid Jahankhani
- Jan Kallberg
- Mats Koraeus
- Kristian Krieger
- Ivan Launders
- Glyn Lawson
- Peter Lehr
- Eleanor Lockley
- George Loukas
- Lachlan MacKinnon
- Bárbara Manso
- Marco Manso
- Franck Mignet
- Seyed Mohammad Reza Nasserzadeh
- Troy Nold
- Patrick de Oude
- Gregor Pavlin
- Julia M. Pearce
- Simon Polovina
- Thomas Quillinan
- Kellyn Rein
- M. Brooke Rogers
- Gregory B. Saathoff
- Rose Saikayasit
- Paul de Souza
- Andrew Staniforth
- Alex W. Stedmon
- Eric Stern
- Fahimeh Tabatabaei
- Bhavani Thuraisingham
- Steve Wright
- Simeon Yates
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Strategy Formation in a Globalized and Networked Age-A Review of the Concept and its Definition
- Introduction
- National strategy and strategy formulation process
- National security
- Strategic intelligence
- Interconnected world
- National security, ICT, and strategy
- Section 1: National Security Strategies and Issues
- Chapter 2: Securing the State: Strategic Responses for an Interdependent World
- A catalyst for change
- Lessons learned
- Contesting terror
- National security frameworks
- Strategic responses
- National security machinery
- Security context today
- From threat to threat
- Challenges ahead
- Chapter 3: We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us: Insider Threat and Its Challenge to National Security
- Introduction.
- Defining the insider threat
- How the Insider Threat is Different from the External Threat
- Enhanced Capabilities of the Insider
- Categories of Insider Threat
- Carrying Out the Attack
- The amerithrax case
- Substance Dependence
- Homicidality
- Suicidality
- Substance Abuse
- Summary
- Chapter 4: An Age of Asymmetric Challenges-4th Generation Warfare at Sea
- Definitions: from naval AW to MIA s
- Case study: the indian-pacific and sea lines of communication security
- Criminal Nonstate Actors: Smugglers, Traffickers, and Pirates
- Political Nonstate Actors: (Maritime) Terrorists
- Substate Actors: From al-Shabaab (Somalia) to Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Philippines)
- State Actors: Iran and the IRGCN
- Discussion: from asymmetries and irregularities to 4GW
- 3GW reloaded: a caveat
- Conclusion: the perils of "swimming in the instantaneousness of postmodernism"
- Chapter 5: Port and Border Security: The First and Last Line of National Security Defense
- A new era
- Second wave
- Independent review
- Trans-atlantic terror
- Securing the border
- All hazards approach
- Section 2: The Public, Communication, Risk, and National Security
- Chapter 6: Risk Communication, Risk Perception and Behavior as Foundations of Effective National Security Practices
- Risk communication: a pillar of national security
- The importance of effective risk communication
- Acknowledging Variations in Behavioral Responses to Risk Communication
- Implications for Physical Health
- Implications for the Ability of Systems to Respond
- Inspiring Trust, Influencing Response
- Risk perception: a foundation for understanding public responses to extreme events
- Expert Perceptions of Risk
- Public Perceptions of Risk
- Behavior: understanding likely public responses to extreme events.
- Professional Planning Assumptions and Public Behavior
- Public Behavioral Response Assumptions during an Extreme Event
- Risk communication in practice
- Chapter 7: Promoting Public Resilience against Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism
- Beyond prevention and security in counterterrorism: promoting public resilience and managing risk
- Resilience and the role of the public
- Public perceptions, risk communication, and the promotion of resilience
- Public Risk Perceptions of the CBRN Threat
- Public Perceptions of the Trustworthiness of Emergency Managers and Policy Makers
- Public Perceptions of Response Costs and Efficacy
- Quality of Risk Communication
- Conclusions: public resilience, CBRN, and human factors
- Chapter 8: From Local to Global: Community-based Policing and National Security
- Policing by consent, community, and prevent
- The Challenge of New Forms of Networked Communities
- Devilry through the dark web: preventing online radicalization
- Self-radicalization Process
- Implications of online behavior for national security
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9: The Role of Social Media in Crisis: A European Holistic Approach to the Adoption of Online and Mobile Communicat...
- Lessons from past crisis situations
- The role of ICT tools and social media in crisis
- Hurdles to the Use of New Communication/Social Media in Crisis Situations
- Old Habits are Difficult to Change and they are not Exclusive to PPDR Organizations
- The iSAR + way: approaching a multidimensional problem
- The iSAR + Platform and Services
- The i112 Portal (for Citizens and PPDRs)
- Interoperability with Existing Social Media and ICT Tools for Crisis
- The iSAR + Fusion Center
- iSAR + PPDR Services
- iSAR + Mobile Services
- iSAR + Interfaces: The iSAR + Network
- Conclusion.
- About the contributors
- Chapter 10: Emerging Technologies and the Human Rights Challenge of Rapidly Expanding State Surveillance Capacities
- A brief survey of emerging surveillance technologies
- Biometric Technologies
- Location-based and Tracking Technologies
- Through-the-wall Surveillance Technology
- Mobile Surveillance and Wireless Sensor Systems
- Virtual Reality, Surveillance, and Security Systems
- Nongovernmental organization policy research: intervention and accountability on surveillance
- Digitalization and Dataveillance
- Surveillance Flows and Dataveillance Networks
- Algorithmic Surveillance and Geolocation
- Accountability
- Human rights and surveillance technologies
- Conclusions
- Section 3: Technologies, Information, and Knowledge for National Security
- Chapter 11: User Requirements and Training Needs within Security Applications: Methods for Capture and Communication
- User requirements elicitation
- User Requirements Elicitation in Sensitive Domains
- Conducting user requirements elicitation
- Human Factors Methods and Visualization Tools
- Security case study
- User Interviews
- Personas
- Field Observation
- Link Analysis
- Identifying training needs
- Empowering Staff
- Access to Training Resources
- In-house Training
- Generalizing from Specifics
- Integrated and Tailored Training
- Raised Awareness and Skill Fade
- Certificates
- Knowledge Elicitation
- Discussion
- Chapter 12: Exploring the Crisis Management/Knowledge Management Nexus
- Crisis management
- Threat to Core Values
- Uncertainty
- Urgency
- CM Tasks
- Knowledge management
- What is Knowledge?
- Tacit and Explicit Knowledge
- Transfer and Conversion of Knowledge
- The SECI Process
- Socialization
- Externalization
- Combination
- Internalization.
- Implications of KM
- Communities of Practice
- Meta-knowledge
- Empathic Knowledge
- Second-order Knowledge
- Knowledge Brokerage
- Concluding reflections: implications for CM
- SECI and CM
- Expertise and CM
- Knowledge Workers in Crises
- Knowledge Under Pressure
- (Re)integrating KM
- Chapter 13: A Semantic Approach to Security Policy Reasoning
- Current approaches
- Best practice
- Business rules
- Enterprise architecture frameworks
- Threats, vulnerabilities, and security concepts in CGs
- Conceptual Graphs
- Business Rules for Vulnerabilities
- Business Threats in Enterprise Architecture
- Security Threats
- Financial trading case study
- The Automated FT TG in CoGui
- Reasoning with Business Rules
- Security reasoning with the FT transaction graph
- Business rule and evolving security policy
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 14: The ATHENA Project: Using Formal Concept Analysis to Facilitate the Actions of Responders in a Crisis Situation
- The athena vision
- Architecture narrative
- ATHENA System Overview
- ATHENA Components
- Crisis Mobile
- Sending Tools
- Receiving Tools
- Crisis Information Processing Center
- Information Acquisition and Preprocessing Tools
- Aggregation and Analysis Tools
- Crisis Command and Control Intelligence Dashboard
- Crisis Map (CCCID Version).
- Mobile Communications Center
- Social Media Content Management Tool.
- Crisis Summary and Query Tools.
- Social Media
- Interoperability
- Crisis Management Language
- Decentralized Intelligence Processing Framework
- ATHENA Cloud Secure Information Center
- Formal concept analysis
- Formal concept analysis for deriving crisis information
- London Bombing Example
- Building on prior projects
- ATHENA Concepts in Related Domains
- Chapter 15: Exploiting Intelligence for National Security.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Akhgar, Babak Strategic Intelligence Management
- ISBN:
- 9780124072190
- OCLC:
- 830163812
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