Information technology for counterterrorism [electronic resource] : immediate actions and future possibilities / Committee on the Role of Information Technology in Responding to Terrorism, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council of the National Academies ; John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, and Herbert S. Lin, editors.

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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Role of Information Technology in Responding to Terrorism [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2003.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 128 p.)

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Summary note
Information technology (IT) is essential to virtually all of the nation s critical infrastructures making them vulnerable by a terrorist attack on their IT system. An attack could be on the system itself or use the IT system to launch or exacerbate another type of attack. IT can also be used as a counterterrorism tool. The report concludes that the most devastating consequences of a terrorist attack would occur if it were on or used IT as part of a broader attack. The report presents two recommendations on what can be done in the short term to protect the nation s communications and information systems and several recommendations about what can be done over the longer term. The report also notes the importance of considering how an IT system will be deployed to maximize protection against and usefulness in responding to attacks.
Notes
Chairman: John Hennessy.
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ISBN
  • 0309504341 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780309504348 (electronic bk.)
OCLC
62391968
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