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Risk Assessment and Security for Pipelines, Tunnels, and Underground Rail and Transit Operations
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Risk Assessment and Security for Pipelines, Tunnels, and Underground Rail and Transit Operations

by Anna M. Doro-on
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
414 pages
14h 2m
English
CRC Press
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80Risk Assessment and Security
and alerts are sent through the Federal Aviation Administration so that a ight in
potential danger can consider what course of action to take to minimize radiation
exposure (NASA 2012a).
2.10 Cyberterrorism
A cyberattack perpetrated by nation states or violent extremist groups could be as
destructive as the terrorist attack of September 11 (US DoD 2012). Clay Wilson
(2005), in his report, identies three dierent methods of attack, based on the
eects of the weapons used:
A physical attack involves conventional weapons directed against a computer
facility or its transmission lines. A physical attack is implemented either
through the use of conventional weapons, creating heat, blast, and fragmen-
tation, or ...
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ISBN: 9781466569324