Information Security Management Handbook, Volume 6, 6th Edition

Chapter 30

Terrorism: An Overview*

Frank Bolz, Jr., Kenneth J. Dudonis, and David P. Schulz

New Game

Terrorism is a political act, though its use and processes have very specific, horrific components and consequences. In this country terror is perhaps no longer perceived to be the same thing it was in the years immediately following the events of September 11, 2001—events that tragically introduced international terrorism to the American public. Terrorism on American soil was not new, since political activists, extremists, and radicals had used bombs, ...