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of training as background. In doing so, they may miss a more glaring
vulnerability that another discipline might expose.
When selecting team members, it is important that they are experi-
enced in their field of work and have some homeland security training,
if possible. Confidentiality is another very important issue to discuss
with the team. Vulnerabilities from threats that communities and
facilities may have should be kept with utmost confidentiality. If these
weaknesses were to get in to the wrong hands, it could endanger the
community by placing those sites at risk from an adversary attack. Also,
it could give an advantage to private companies’ competitors by allow-
ing them to exploit those vulnerabilities for their ow ...