Strategic Intelligence Management

National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies

Babak Akhgar, Simeon Yates (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

340 Seiten

2013
Butterworth-Heinemann Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-407191-9 (ISBN)

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Introduces both academic researchers and law enforcement professionals to contemporary issues of national security and information management and analysis. This title explores the technological and social aspects of managing information for contemporary national security imperatives.

Strategic Intelligence Management introduces both academic researchers and law enforcement professionals to contemporary issues of national security and information management and analysis. This contributed volume draws on state-of-the-art expertise from academics and law enforcement practitioners across the globe. The chapter authors provide background, analysis, and insight on specific topics and case studies. Strategic Intelligent Management explores the technological and social aspects of managing information for contemporary national security imperatives.

Academic researchers and graduate students in computer science, information studies, social science, law, terrorism studies, and politics, as well as professionals in the police, law enforcement, security agencies, and government policy organizations will welcome this authoritative and wide-ranging discussion of emerging threats.

Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics and Director of CENTRIC (Center of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organized Crime Research) at Sheffield Hallam University (UK) and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He has more than 100 refereed publications in international journals and conferences on information systems with specific focus on knowledge management (KM). He is member of editorial boards of several international journals and has acted as Chair and Program Committee Member for numerous international conferences. He has extensive and hands-on experience in the development, management and execution of KM projects and large international security initiatives (e.g., the application of social media in crisis management, intelligence-based combating of terrorism and organized crime, gun crime, cyber-crime and cyber terrorism and cross cultural ideology polarization). In addition to this he is the technical lead of two EU Security projects: “Courage on Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Terrorism and “Athena onthe Application of Social Media and Mobile Devices in Crisis Management. He has co-edited several books on Intelligence Management.. His recent books are titled “Strategic Intelligence Management (National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies), “Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organised Crime and “Emerging Trends in ICT Security. Prof Akhgar is member of the academic advisory board of SAS UK. Simeon Yates was formerly at Sheffield Hallam University and CENTRIC, and is now Director of the Institute of Cultural Capital, a strategic collaboration between Liverpool John Moores University andthe University of Liverpool (UK).

Foreword (Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE, QC)

Part 1: National Security Strategies and Issues 1 Introduction: Strategy Formation in a Globalized and Networked Age—A Review of the Concept and its Definition 2 Securing the State: Strategic Responses for an Interdependent World 3 We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us: Insider Threat and Its Challenge to National Security 4 An Age of Asymmetric Challenges—4th Generation Warfare at Sea 5 Port and Border Security: The First and Last Line of National Security Defense

Part 2: The Public, Communication, Risk, and National Security 6 Risk Communication, Risk Perception and Behavior as Foundations of Effective National Security Practices 7 Promoting Public Resilience against Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism 8 From Local to Global: Community-based Policing and National Security 9 The Role of Social Media in Crisis: A European Holistic Approach to the Adoption of Online and Mobile Communications in Crisis Response and Search and Rescue Efforts 10 Emerging Technologies and the Human Rights Challenge of Rapidly Expanding State Surveillance Capacities

Part 3: Technologies, Information, and Knowledge for National Security 11 User Requirements and Training Needs within Security Applications: Methods for Capture and Communication 12 Exploring the Crisis Management/Knowledge Management Nexus 13 A Semantic Approach to Security Policy Reasoning 14 The ATHENA Project: Using Formal Concept Analysis to Facilitate the Actions of Responders in a Crisis Situation 15 Exploiting Intelligence for National Security 16 Re-thinking Standardization for Interagency Information Sharing

Part 4: Future Threats and Cyber Security 17 Securing Cyberspace: Strategic Responses for a Digital Age 18 National Cyber Defense Strategy 19 From Cyber Terrorism to State Actors’ Covert Cyber Operations 20 Cyber Security Countermeasures to Combat Cyber Terrorism 21 Developing a Model to Reduce and/or Prevent Cybercrime Victimization among the User Individuals

Concluding remarks

Verlagsort	Woburn
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	910 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
	Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-12-407191-0 / 0124071910
ISBN-13	978-0-12-407191-9 / 9780124071919
Zustand	Neuware