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Securing Global Transportation Networks Luke Ritter

Securing Global Transportation Networks By Luke Ritter

Securing Global Transportation Networks by Luke Ritter


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Demonstrates how improved security processes can create value across the business functions. This book explains globalization's impact on transportation networks and creates a framework for realizing a return on security investments by integrating it as a core business process.

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Securing Global Transportation Networks by Luke Ritter

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Viable, value-creating solutions for securing global transportation networks

Securing Global Transportation Networks demonstrates how improved security processes can create value across all the business functions throughout an entire value chain. Readers will learn a whole new security management philosophy, as explained through domestic and international examples and case studies ranging from major retailers such as Home Depot to shipping giants such as Maersk and FedEx. This book also looks ahead to future developments and "best practices" for the future. If you're charged with making or evaluating transportation security decisions, you'll find the tools you need to succeed -- and prosper -- with the Total Security Management approach.

  • Explains globalization's impact on transportation networks
  • Creates a framework for realizing a return on security investments by integrating it as a core business process
  • Details how transportation firms, investors, and insurance companies can measure and reward smart security practices that protect a firm's fixed assets, assets in transit, brand equity and goodwill, and human capital

Securing Global Transportation Networks Reviews

"A must-read approach for creating sustainable value from smart practices." --Michael Cadenazzi, CEO of Continuity Solutions and Founding Member, Washington, DC, Chapter of the Contingency Planning Exchange Contingency Planning Exchange 20080301 "If Securing Global Transportation Networks is your line in the sand, a starting point on the unending path of supply chain risk management, it's a good place to start." Logistics Today 20080301 "Given the possibility of what could happen to your supply chain if you fail to take the steps to mitigate supply chain risk, Securing Global Transportation Networks is a worthwhile and cost-effective investment." Supply Chain Management Review 20080301 Recommended, 'Executive Bookshelf for Disaster-proofing the Supply Chain.' Supply and Demand Chain Executive Journal 20080301

About Luke Ritter

Luke Ritter (Annapolis, MD) CEO, Trident Global Partners and specialist in commercial and military transportation operations and logistics. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy specializing in military transportation management. He spent several years managing railroad and motor carrier operations for a U.S. based steamship line, and provided transportation security technology solutions to government and commercial clients as a defense contractor. J. Michael Barrett is a terrorism and homeland security expert with an extensive background in military intelligence and national security. A former Fulbright Scholar to Ankara,Turkey, Mr. Barrett is currently a Fellow in Homeland Security at the Manhattan Institute and the President of Counterpoint Assessments, a terrorism preparedness and risk mitigation firm. He previously served as Senior Analyst for the War on Terrorism Branch of the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as Lead Intelligence Officer for the Special Operations/Combating Terrorism Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. He has published numerous newspaper and journal articles and been interviewed dozens of times on television and radio, including ABC, NBC, Fox News, FRONTLINE, New York Public Radio, Bill OReillys The Radio Factor and the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Rosalyn Wilson (Laurel, MD) - is a Manager at Reality Based IT Services, Ltd. RBIS, Ltd., an information technology security firm and subsidiary of SYS Technologies. Rosalyn is also an independent consultant with over 25 years of experience in the transportation and logistics industry focusing on the performance of various sectors of the industry and identifying and analyzing key issues facing the transportation industry. Mrs. Wilson has extensive railroad industry experience, having served in various capacities for over 11 years at the Association of American Railroads AAR. She is the author of the State of Logistics Report, an annual benchmark for US logistics activity and was the author of Transportation in America, a compendium of transportation information.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Global Trade and Total Security Management
Chapter 2: The Total Security Management Framework
Chapter 3: Creating Value: The Case for TSM
Chapter 4: The Risk Management Approach to TSM
Chapter 5: Securing Fixed Assets
Chapter 6: Securing Assets in Transit
Chapter 7: Securing Brand Equity and Goodwill
Chapter 8: Securing Human Capital
Chapter 9: TSM and Business Continuity Planning
Chapter 10: The End of the beginning
Appendix A: Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Report Template
Appendix B: Sample Value Chain Security Procedures for Chemical Firms
Appendix C: Seven Signs of Possible Terrorist Activity
Appendix D: Sample Procedures for Handling Suspicious Packages
Appendix E: Total Security Management Glossary

Additional information

CIN0071477519G
9780071477512
0071477519
Securing Global Transportation Networks by Luke Ritter
Used - Good
Hardback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
2006-11-16
312
N/A
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