Design and Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems

by Mary Lynn Garcia

Design and Evaluation of Physical Security Systems, Second Edition , includes updated references to security expectations and changes since 9/11. The threat chapter includes references to new threat capabilities in Weapons of Mass Destruction, and a new figure on hate crime groups in the US. All the technology chapters have been reviewed and updated to include technology in use since 2001, when the first edition was published. Garcia has also added a new chapter that shows how the methodology described in the book is applied in transportation systems. College faculty who have adopted this text have suggested improvements and these have been incorporated as well. This second edition also includes some references to the author's recent book on Vulnerability Assessment, to link the two volumes at a high level.

Genres: School

376 pages, Paperback

First published September 26, 2007

Reviews

[Alifia Rahmawati]

Kitab suci perskripsian saya.

[Bobsie67]

Read this for the ASIS International PSP certification exam--one of many books you used to need to study to earn that certification. Good reference material.

[Bob Finch]

Very disappointing. As one of the only books available that address physical security in any detail, it has something of a corner on the (small) market. And it offers a good deal of useful information. But it is remarkably flawed, especially being a second edition, for which so many blatant errors should have been corrected (such as figures wrongly labeled and text-figure mismatch).

Even more disappointing though is the lack of clarity in some chapters. The most egregious is probably Ch. 3 which professes to help the reader understand "Target Identification" when it merely dances around the topic, and never gets to how one might accomplish the task (the author provides methods on how to approach the problem of protecting a target once it has been identified, which requires the reader already understands how to identify a target!).

Perhaps one of the greatest contributions this book can make is to inspire a better attempt in the future.