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Table of Contents

Foreword (Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE, QC)

Part 1: National Security Strategies and Issues 1 Introduction: Strategy Formation in a Globalized and Networked Age—A Review of the Concept and its Definition 2 Securing the State: Strategic Responses for an Interdependent World 3 We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us: Insider Threat and Its Challenge to National Security 4 An Age of Asymmetric Challenges—4th Generation Warfare at Sea 5 Port and Border Security: The First and Last Line of National Security Defense

Part 2: The Public, Communication, Risk, and National Security 6 Risk Communication, Risk Perception and Behavior as Foundations of Effective National Security Practices 7 Promoting Public Resilience against Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism 8 From Local to Global: Community-based Policing and National Security 9 The Role of Social Media in Crisis: A European Holistic Approach to the Adoption of Online and Mobile Communications in Crisis Response and Search and Rescue Efforts 10 Emerging Technologies and the Human Rights Challenge of Rapidly Expanding State Surveillance Capacities

Part 3: Technologies, Information, and Knowledge for National Security 11 User Requirements and Training Needs within Security Applications: Methods for Capture and Communication 12 Exploring the Crisis Management/Knowledge Management Nexus 13 A Semantic Approach to Security Policy Reasoning 14 The ATHENA Project: Using Formal Concept Analysis to Facilitate the Actions of Responders in a Crisis Situation 15 Exploiting Intelligence for National Security 16 Re-thinking Standardization for Interagency Information Sharing

Part 4: Future Threats and Cyber Security 17 Securing Cyberspace: Strategic Responses for a Digital Age 18 National Cyber Defense Strategy 19 From Cyber Terrorism to State Actors’ Covert Cyber Operations 20 Cyber Security Countermeasures to Combat Cyber Terrorism 21 Developing a Model to Reduce and/or Prevent Cybercrime Victimization among the User Individuals

Concluding remarks

About the Author

Babak Akhgar, PhD, is a professor of informatics at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK and Co-Director of their Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organized Crime Research (CENTRIC). Simeon Yates was formerly at Sheffield Hallam University and CENTRIC, and is now Director of the Institute of Cultural Capital, a strategic collaboration between Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Liverpool (UK).

Reviews

"...an important work and should be of interest to public officials, executives in the private sector, and others who have a serious appetite for a broader and deeper understanding of the security challenges we are all facing." --Security Management

"International contributors in computing, communications systems, criminology, and emergency medicine provide a detailed overview for scholars, policy makers, and those in law, security, government, and business. The book examines current issues of national security strategy in the context of new global communication networks and global connections among regions and resources." --Reference & Research Book News, December 2013