Design and Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems

Design and Evaluation of Physical Security Systems, Second Edition, includes updated references to security expectations and changes since 9/11. The threat chapter includes references to new threat capabilities in Weapons of Mass Destruction, and a new figure on hate crime groups in the US. All the technology chapters have been reviewed and updated to include technology in use since 2001, when the first edition was published. Garcia has also added a new chapter that shows how the methodology described in the book is applied in transportation systems. College faculty who have adopted this text have suggested improvements and these have been incorporated as well. This second edition also includes some references to the author's recent book on Vulnerability Assessment, to link the two volumes at a high level.

New chapter on transportation systemsExtensively updated chapter on threat definitionMajor changes to response chapter

Part One 1. Design and Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems 2. Facility Characterization 3. Threat Definition 4. Target Identification

Part Two 5. Physical Protection System Design 6. Exterior Intrusion Sensors 7. Interior Intrusion Sensors 8. Alarm Assessment 9. Alarm Communication and Display 10. Entry Control 11. Access Delay 12. Response

Part Three 13. Analysis and Evaluation 14. EASI Computer Model for Analysis 15. Risk Assessment 16. Transportation System application

Appendix A. Threat tables B. EASI Model