Security Science

Security has evolved rapidly in the last decade, but there is no consensus on a security body of knowledge. Security Sciences offers a proposal aimed at filling this gap. Students and active professionals worldwide can benefit from the high-level technical content and systematic approach to improving security. Smith and Brooks draw on their decades of security practice, teaching, and research and development experience to present an overview of current theory and practice in crucial areas like business continuity, security risk management, and intelligence-led security. This book offers a more quantitative model for developing security policies, procedures, and technology. The authors make proposals that may be controversial. Particularly in the United States, homeland security measures have sometimes been driven by ideology more than by science or experimental evidence of effectiveness. Smith and Brooks challenge practitioners and academics to move away from decisions based on intuition or conventional wisdom in the direction of an interdisciplinary security science, and offer them tools for the battle to protect our most precious assets.