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

fYear

2015

fDate

14-16 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), 2015 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1736-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/THS.2015.7225322

Filename

7225322