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Practical Aviation Security
Predicting and Preventing Future Threats
- 4th Edition - December 2, 2024
- Authors: Jeffrey Price, Jeffrey Forrest
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 5 3 8 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 5 3 9 - 2
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,… Read more
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Request a sales quotePractical 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.
- 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
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
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
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
- No. of pages: 680
- Language: English
- Edition: 4
- Published: December 2, 2024
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443135385
- eBook ISBN: 9780443135392
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Jeffrey Price
Jeffrey C. Price is a Professor in the Aviation and Aerospace Science Department at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He has worked in the field for over 20 years, most recently as a trainer for the certification programs of the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE). His company, Leading Edge Strategies, has conducted the Airport Security Coordinator Training School. Jeff is also the original author of the Airport Certified Employee (ACE) Security program, as well as the lead author of the new Certified Member (CM) Body of Knowledge. Jeff developed the initial airfield manager training programs for DIA, then helped open Denver International Airport in 1995. He served as the Assistant Security Director until 1998, then moved to Jefferson County Airport as the Director of Public Relations, Marketing and Property Management. He was Airport Manager at Jefferson County Airport from 1999-2002. He also served on the Colorado Aeronautics Board.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Aviation and Aerospace Science, Metropolitan State University, Denver; former Assistant Security Director, Denver International Airport, CO, USAJF
Jeffrey Forrest
Jeffrey Forrest, PhD, is the Chair of Department of Aviation and Aerospace Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver, CO, USA. He is co-author of Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats and has been active in designing, teaching, and managing aviation education and research programs for over 25 years.
Affiliations and expertise
Chair, Department of Aviation and Aerospace Science, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO, USA