Title :
A proven method for identifying security gaps in international postal and transportation critical infrastructure
Author :
Allen, Julia H. ; Curtis, Pamela D. ; Mehravari, Nader ; Crabb, Gregory
Author_Institution :
Software Eng. Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
The safety, security, and resilience of international postal, shipping, and transportation critical infrastructure are vital to the global supply chain that enables worldwide commerce and communications. But security on an international scale continues to fail in the face of new threats, such as the discovery by Panamanian authorities of suspected components of a surface-to-air missile system aboard a North Korean-flagged ship in July 2013 [1].This reality calls for new and innovative approaches to critical infrastructure security. Owners and operators of critical postal, shipping, and transportation operations need new methods to identify, assess, and mitigate security risks and gaps in the most effective manner possible.
Keywords :
critical infrastructures; inspection; military aircraft; missiles; national security; risk analysis; ships; supply chain management; UPU standards; USPIS; United States Postal Inspection Service; critical transportation services; field instrument; global supply chain; international community; international mail processing centers; international postal infrastructure; international scale; physical security assessment method; resilince management; security gap identification; security risk mitigation; shipping processing facilities; surface to-air missile system; transportation critical infrastructure security; transportation processing facilities; worldwide commerce; Instruments; Organizations; Postal services; Security; Standards organizations; Transportation; Physical Security; Resilince Management;
Conference_Titel :
Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), 2015 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Waltham, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1736-5
DOI :
10.1109/THS.2015.7225322
