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In today's transportation operating environment, risk management is the appropriate starting point for any decisionmaking regarding homeland security. Before any plans are made or any money spent, security planners must know about the risks confronting the agency and the tactics or techniques available to them to respond to existing or potential homeland security challenges.
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The three components of risk assessment are threat assessment, vulnerability assessment, and consequence assessment.
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The Guide deploys a consequence driven methodology to provide a capital budgeting tool for senior transportation agency management. The Guide supplies a means to compare disparate asset classes across a range of threats and hazards on a common scale and establish risk levels for planning.
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purpose and necessary parameters of an assessment. Because regions may contain markedly different assets and systems, the risks to those systems and the types of data collected from those regions will differ as well.
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Explosives Explosives include both conventional explosives devices (CE) and improvised explosives devices (IEDs)
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Suicide bombings are characterized as an attack on a target in which an attacker intends to kill others, knowing that he or she will either certainly or most likely die in the process. The means of attack have included vehicles filled with explosives, passenger planes carrying large amounts of fuel, and individuals wearing explosives-filled vests.
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Risk Management and Risk Assessment 9 Cryptosporidiosis)
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Table 1-4 outlines the disease, incubation period, and symptoms for selected Category A and Category B biological agents. Concern exists about the potential for a terrorist attack involving radioactive materials, possibly through the use of a Radiological Dispersion Device (RDD)
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amount and type of material, method of dispersal, and local weather conditions. According to the CDC, "at the levels created by most probable sources, not enough radiation would be present in a dirty bomb to cause severe illness from exposure to radiation." Radiation is energy moving in the form of particles or waves.
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A nuclear attack by terrorists is a high-order-ofmagnitude event that could kill a large number of people. As mentioned previously, a dirty bomb containing high-level radioactive material could be a means to deliver a nuclear attack.
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Risk Management and Risk Assessment 13 Armed Assault Terrorist-related Armed Assault by one or more gunmen, although rare in the United States, occurs much more frequently in other parts of the world. In particular, in Afghanistan and Iraq, terrorists have deployed "hit and run" tactics as a form of "asymmetrical warfare" designed to reduce personnel losses and inflict maximum casualties.
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14 Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies Type Description Typical Targets Unsophisticated Unskilled in the use of tools and weapons and having no formal organization. Theft by insiders is also common.
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not directed by foreign interests. International terrorists are either connected to a foreign power or they transcend national boundaries.
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16 Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies evaluated. Finally, security gaps that should be addressed to reduce or buy down security risk are determined.
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• Critical asset identification, • Threats and vulnerabilities existing against those assets, and • Consequences or ramifications of successful attacks against those assets. The efficacy of this report will be determined primarily by the comprehensiveness and derivation of facts and opinions resulting from interviews, examinations, observations, analysis, and investigations.
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