Preliminary Announcement

As President Bush has said: “The terrorists need to be right only once. Free nations need to be right 100 percent of the time.”  In What We Saw in London, Stephen J. Hadley, National Security Adviser and Frances Fragos Townsend, Homeland Security Adviser to the President recently wrote: “….the people of London responded bravely. Their courage over these harrowing few weeks reminds us that those who love freedom have prevailed against such evil before and can do so again. The London attacks vividly demonstrated the challenge we face. We need all citizens, everyone who loves freedom, to join in the fight.” Therefore, all of us need to know enough about security technologies, principles and their application, to be intelligent consumers of security services.

What is Security?

How do we measure Security Effectiveness?

WHY ATTEND?

Opening keynote by Dennis Treece, an expert’s expert and user of security systems, will help address these questions and frame this introduction to Security for the non-Expert

Industry leaders will share their practical experiences and lessons learned

REAP THE BENEFITS

Join your peers and learn about:

Physical Security Principles

Elements of Threat, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment

Countermeasures

What to do before, during and after a security incident

Integration of elements into a Security System

State-of-the-art in Security Devices

Highlights:

What: Physical Security, Access Control, CCTV, Perimeter Protection, Area Sensors, Risk Assessment, Information Security, Blast Effects and Protection, Information Security

Who Should Attend:

Executives and technical managers involved with specifying and implementing security

Security professionals working in one area interested in updating their information about other areas. Engineers and others interested in security awareness

Guest Presenters include:

Dennis Treece, Director of Corporate Security for Massport – overview from the practitioner’s perspective

Bill Baukus, American Science and Engineering – X-ray Systems

Prof. Andrzej Rucinski, University of New Hampshire & National Infrastructure Institute – biometrics

Garry Murphy, Weapons of Mass Destruction Consultant – Chemical detection systems

Ted Kochanski, MU-Vision, Inc. – Nuclear Methods of Inspection

Industrial Security Users {TBD}

Background

The July bombings of the London Underground and Tourist Hotels in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt re-awakened the Civilized World to the reality that global terrorism is a persistent and omnipresent threat to our way of life.  Since more than 2/3 of the critical infrastructure is in the hands of the private sector, much of future homeland security depends on operational spending and investment by private industry.  As in the case of 9/11/2001, the initial response of our society was to increase security manpower and install more existing manual-intensive equipment.  Meanwhile, cell phones, digital cameras, Wifi Networks, are inexorable following Moore’s Law in performance, adding functionality and decreasing in price.   

This Lecture Series follows the path of the 5 IEEE Conferences on Technologies for Homeland Security.  It is structured to provide users of security with an overview of the field to be intelligent consumers of security solutions.  It also provides technology developers with some background in practical aspects of the field.

Program:

Segment 1:       Introduction

Segment 2:       Physical Security Principles

Segment 3:       Risk Assessment -  I

Segment 4:       Risk Assessment -  II

Segment 5:       Occupant Emergency Procedures

Segment 6:       Facility Architecture

Segment 7:       Security Devices – 101 — overview

Segment 8:       Policy, Procedures, Practices and Training

Segment 9:       Security Devices – II – perimeter and area sensors

Segment 10:     Security Devices – III – Biometrics and Chemical Sensors

Segment 11:     System Integration

Segment 12:     Security Devices IV — X-ray Systems and Nuclear Methods

Course Fee Schedule:

On-line Registration and Payment

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