Abstract

The purpose of this research is to develop intelligence-driven risk assessment and resource allocation model that improves infrastructure protection while minimizing impact on current business operations. This work builds on current efforts to develop decision analysis tools that utilize suspicious activity reports (SARs) and on current efforts to develop risk assessment and resource allocation tools for port security applications (CREATE PortSec [A]). Currently, risk assessments and resource allocations in PortSec are based on 1) assessed infrastructure vulnerabilities (via expert elicitations), 2) anticipated attack vectors, 3) current vessel traffic in the port, 4) blue force deployment and 5) surface street/highway traffic. Information such as SARs and other intelligence sources are currently not factored into the decision-making logic of the system. For example, knowledge that a particular make, model and color of …

Date

2012

Authors

Michael D Orosz