Strategic Intelligence Management: National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies
- 9h 39m
- Babak Akhgar, Simeon Yates (eds)
- Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
- 2013
Strategic Intelligence Management introduces both academic researchers and law enforcement professionals to contemporary issues of national security and information management and analysis. This contributed volume draws on state-of-the-art expertise from academics and law enforcement practitioners across the globe. The chapter authors provide background, analysis, and insight on specific topics and case studies. Strategic Intelligence Management explores the technological and social aspects of managing information for contemporary national security imperatives
Academic researchers and graduate students in computer science, information studies, social science, law, terrorism studies, and politics, as well as professionals in the police, law enforcement, security agencies, and government policy organizations will welcome this authoritative and wide-ranging discussion of emerging threats.
- Hot topics like cyber terrorism, Big Data, and Somali pirates, addressed in terms the layperson can understand, with solid research grounding
- Fills a gap in existing literature on intelligence, technology, and national security
- Market opportunities in US, UK, and Germany, including potential for FBI and EU law-enforcement training programs as well as advanced undergrad and grad school textbook adoptions
About the Editor
Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics and Co-Director of the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC) at Sheffield Hallam University and Fellow of British Computer Society. Professor Akhgar graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in Software Engineering. Afterwards he gained considerable commercial experience as a Strategy Analyst and Methodology Director for several companies. He consolidated this experience by obtaining a Masters degree (with distinction) in Information Systems in Management and a PhD in Information Systems. He has more than 100 referred publications in international journals and conferences. He is a member of editorial boards of three international journals and chair and program committee member of several international conferences. He has extensive and hands-on experience in development, management, and execution of large international knowledge management and security initiatives (e.g., combating terrorism and organized crime, cyber security, public order, and cross-cultural ideology polarization). Professor Akhgar has an established network of collaborators in various academic and law enforcement agencies locally, nationally, and internationally. The impact of his research on e-security, manifested in a multilingual portal for business crime reduction, and his research on combating organized crime and terrorism lead to an international research project with partners such as Europol and a number of law enforcement agencies (with project value of 3.2 M Euro). He has recently co-edited a book on intelligence management called Intelligence Management: Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organized crime.
Professor Simeon Yates is the Director of C3RI at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. The C3RI includes the Art and Design and Communication and Computing Research Centers. Simeon is also a Chair at CENTRIC. His research focus is on the social, political, and cultural impacts of digital media. This includes a longstanding focus on digital media and interpersonal interaction, issues of digital exclusion, and more recently projects that address the use of digital technologies in the context of security and crises. Over the last 3 years Simeon was one of the leads on a major interdisciplinary program at Sheffield Hallam and has undertaken research on best practice in supporting cross-disciplinary working.
In this Book
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Introduction: Strategy Formation in a Globalized and Networked Age—A Review of the Concept and its Definition
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Securing the State: Strategic Responses for an Interdependent World
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We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us: Insider Threat and Its Challenge to National Security
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An Age of Asymmetric Challenges—4th Generation Warfare at Sea
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Port and Border Security: The First and Last Line of National Security Defense
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Risk Communication, Risk Perception and Behavior as Foundations of Effective National Security Practices
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Promoting Public Resilience against Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism
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From Local to Global: Community-Based Policing and National Security
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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
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Emerging Technologies and the Human Rights Challenge of Rapidly Expanding State Surveillance Capacities
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User Requirements and Training Needs within Security Applications: Methods for Capture and Communication
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Exploring the Crisis Management/Knowledge Management Nexus
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A Semantic Approach to Security Policy Reasoning
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The ATHENA Project: Using Formal Concept Analysis to Facilitate the Actions of Responders in a Crisis Situation
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Exploiting Intelligence for National Security
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Re-thinking Standardization for Interagency Information Sharing
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Securing Cyberspace: Strategic Responses for a Digital Age
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National Cyber Defense Strategy
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From Cyber Terrorism to State Actors' Covert Cyber Operations
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Cyber Security Countermeasures to Combat Cyber Terrorism
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Developing a Model to Reduce and/or Prevent Cybercrime Victimization among the User Individuals
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Conclusion: National Security in the Networked Society
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