Introducing "Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Second Edition"

Nov. 12, 2009 - PRLog -- Since the inception of "Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, First Edition" (published almost four years ago), significant advances in how we approach the safekeeping of our nation’s most critical infrastructures have come to fruition. To keep emergency management, disaster response, and homeland security personnel fully current, Bob Radvanovsky (the original author from the First Edition) and Allan McDougall have now updated their essential reference.

Keeping pace with changes in laws and policies made by the Department of Homeland Security, this new edition also adds information to reflect the development of the Incident Command System (ICS) and the total revision of National Response Framework (NRF), implemented in 2008. The book expands sections on the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Homeland Security Presidential Directives, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitions Systems (SCADA) security initiatives.

In addition to being a comprehensive source of highly useful reference material, this timely work also introduces the paradigm shift in thinking that is subtly moving us away from the Force Protection Doctrine toward an All-Hazards approach to "Critical Infrastructure Protection" (CIP). To this end, it re-introduces a term called "Critical Infrastructure Assurance" (CIA). Keeping pace with this development, the authors demonstrate how emergency management and CIA go hand in hand.

This changing world of ours in which emergency preparedness is finding a permanent niche requires us to integrate and incorporate emergency management and homeland security concepts with infrastructure assurance options. Ultimately, to keep our society both prepare and psychologically healthy we must be able to assure that infrastructure services will continue operating no matter what disaster may befall us.

Additionally, this book introduces web-based references which may be accessed via Infracritical's web site: http://cipbook.infracritical.com.

The book may be purchased through several retailers, including Amazon; the URL is provided below:
http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Infrastructure-Homeland-Em...

The book is to be released sometime in December 2009.

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Defining standards for critical infrastructure assurance (CIA) and (its counterpart) critical infrastructure protection (CIP), Infracritical is an industrial leader, providing research, education, information sharing, and security awareness programs to private / public sectors throughout North America.