Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection

Australia has developed sophisticated national security policies and physical security agencies to protect against current and future security threats associated with critical infrastructure protection and cyber warfare protection. In this paper, the authors examine some common security risks that face Australia and how government policies and strategies have been developed and changed over time, for example, the proposed Australian Homeland Security department. This paper discusses the different steps that Australia has undertaken in relation to developing national policies to deal with critical infrastructure protection.

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Critical Infrastructure Higher Education Initiative

Cases on Research and Knowledge Discovery - Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-5946-9.ch008 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 170-197

Author(s):

Kendal Smith

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Homeland Security ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Essential Element ◽

Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽

Department Of Homeland Security ◽

Infrastructure Protection ◽

Highly Educated ◽

Education Initiative

As an essential element of homeland security, critical infrastructure protection requires a professional, highly educated workforce and community of leaders at all levels of government and in the private sector. Yet there are few structured and comprehensive higher education programs in critical infrastructure protection. This case study reviews an education initiative that partners the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with the Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security at the George Mason University School of Law in an effort to develop and distribute critical infrastructure protection courses and materials that will become part of a comprehensive, unified approach to homeland security education.

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Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security

10.1002/0471789542 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 134

Author(s):

Ted G. Lewis

Keyword(s):

Homeland Security ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽

Infrastructure Protection

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Tips and Trends for Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management ◽

10.2202/1547-7355.1080 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Steven Roberts

Keyword(s):

Homeland Security ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽

Infrastructure Protection

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Homeland Security in a Nutshell

International Journal of Social Science Studies ◽

10.11114/ijsss.v5i6.2398 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (6) ◽

pp. 9

Author(s):

Richard White

Keyword(s):

Emergency Management ◽

Homeland Security ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽

Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽

Mass Destruction ◽

Department Of Homeland Security ◽

Infrastructure Protection ◽

Transportation Security ◽

Brighter Future

As the Department of Homeland Security begins its 2018 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, it will certainly address the question “what is homeland security?”. This article is meant to provide a concise overview. It begins with a definition and relates it back to the origins of homeland security. It then takes that same definition and projects it onto the DHS mission sets. It then takes a closer look at DHS missions in border and transportation security, counterterrorism, emergency management, countering weapons of mass destruction, critical infrastructure protection, and cybersecurity. It concludes with a unique argument that homeland security may be only a transient concern, and that technological change may offer a brighter future.

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