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Practical Aviation Security,

Edition 4 Predicting and Preventing Future Threats

Editors: By Jeffrey Price and Jeffrey Forrest

Publication Date: 20 Nov 2024

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Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, Fourth Edition is a guide to the aviation security system, from crucial historical events to the policies, policymakers, and major terrorist and criminal acts that have shaped the procedures in use today, as well as the cutting-edge technologies that are shaping the future. Using case studies and practical security measures now in use at airports worldwide, readers learn the effective methods and fundamental principles involved in designing and implementing a security system. This expanded fourth edition covers new threats and technologies to reflect the latest knowledge in the field from the past decade.

This book will be ideal for airport, airline, charter, government, and others with aviation security responsibilities to better implement their security programs, evaluate the ever-changing risk environment, and respond appropriately and responsibly.

Key Features

Applies real-world aviation experience to the task of anticipating and deflecting threats
Covers commercial airport security, general aviation and cargo operations, threats, threat detection and response systems, as well as international security issues
Offers new tactics and strategies based on peer-reviewed academic and industry research for aviation security practitioners to implement, to prevent, deter or mitigate attacks on the system
New to the fourth edition: an update to the technologies and recent changes at the screening checkpoint and other passenger touch points with aviation security; a new chapter on Conventional Threats (including an expanded section on domestic violence extremism); a new chapter on Asymmetrical Threats (cyber, unmanned aerial vehicle, urban air mobility, spaceport operations); a new section on countermeasures in security operations

About the author

By Jeffrey Price, Professor, Department of Aviation and Aerospace Science, Metropolitan State University, Denver; former Assistant Security Director, Denver International Airport, CO, USA and Jeffrey Forrest, Chair, Department of Aviation and Aerospace Science, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO, USA

1. Overview of the aviation industry and security in the post 9/11 world
2. Crime and terrorism in aviation
3. Policies and procedures
4. The role of government in aviation security
5. Commercial aviation airport security
6. Introduction to screening
7. The screening process
8. Commercial aviation aircraft operator security
9. General aviation security
10. Air cargo security
11. Conventional Threats
12. Asymmetrical Threats (i.e., cyber, unmanned aerial vehicle, urban air mobility, spaceport operations)
13. Security operations and Countermeasures

ISBN: 9780443135385

Page Count: 680

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Students in aviation and Homeland Security programs, airport operations specialists, airport security managers, homeland security personnel, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and those with responsibilities in the areas of airline, airport and general aviation security, including charter and private operator security programs