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Assessing Publicly Available Data Regarding U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Security
How much data regarding U.S. anti- and counterterrorism systems, countermeasures, and defenses is publicly available and how easily could it be found by individuals seeking to harm U.S. domestic interests? The authors developed a framework to guide assessments of the availability of such information for planning attacks on the U.S. air, rail, and sea transportation infrastructure, and applied the framework in an information-gathering exercise that used several attack scenarios. Overall, the framework was useful for assessing what kind of information would be easy or hard for potential attackers to find. For each of the attack scenarios, a team of “attackers” was unable to locate some of the information that a terrorist planner would need to gauge the likely success of a potential attack. The authors recommend that procedures for securing sensitive information be evaluated regularly and that information that can be obtained from easily accessible, off-site public information sources be included in vulnerability assessments.
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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
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- Document Number: TR-360-DHS
- Year: 2007
- Series: Technical Reports
Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Defining Terrorists’ Information Requirements: The ModIPB Framework
Chapter Three
Summary of Red-Team Findings and Validation
Chapter Four
Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix A
What the Red Team Found
Appendix B
Crosswalk of ModIPB and al Qaeda Manual
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