Whether natural or man-made, disasters will inevitably occur, which is why organizations must be constantly alert and ready to meet any such challenges head-on. Crisis Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications explores the latest empirical research and best real-world practices for preventing, weathering, and recovering from disasters. From earthquakes and tsunamis to nuclear disasters and cyber terrorism, this extensive multi-volume compilation describes crisis management techniques for a variety of critical scenarios, providing leaders, managers, analysts, and workers with invaluable knowledge on how to recover swiftly from any crisis event.

Table of Contents

• Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers
• Editor-in-Chief
• Associate Editors
• Editorial Advisory Board
• Preface
• Section 1: Fundamental Concepts and Theories
• Fundamental Concepts and Theories: Preface
• Chapter 1: Computer System Attacks
• Chapter 2: Wireless Sensor Network Security Attacks
• Chapter 3: Cybersecurity
• Chapter 4: Securing Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
• Chapter 5: An Overview of Cryptography
• Chapter 6: Security of Dependable Systems
• Chapter 7: Mobile Agents Security Protocols
• Chapter 8: Engineering Secure Web Services
• Chapter 9: Fortifying Large Scale, Geospatial Networks
• Chapter 10: The Economic Crisis
• Chapter 11: US Financial Crisis Critique and the Statistical Predictability of a NYSE Portfolio
• Chapter 12: Regulatory and Policy Compliance with Regard to Identity Theft Prevention, Detection, and Response
• Chapter 13: Lessons from Major Incidents Influencing and Influenced by Telecoms Failures
• Chapter 14: Examining the Implications of Process and Choice for Strategic Decision Making Effectiveness
• Chapter 15: Relief Distribution Networks
• Chapter 16: Public Safety Networks
• Section 2: Organizational and Social Implications
• Organizational and Social Implications: Preface
• Chapter 17: Paradise to Peril
• Chapter 18: Challenges of Civil Military Cooperation/Coordination in Humanitarian Relief
• Chapter 19: Web-Based Multi-User Distributed and Collaborative Environment Supporting Emergency and Relief Activities
• Chapter 20: Information Seeking and Retrieval Service for Crisis Response
• Chapter 21: Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Management
• Chapter 22: A Systems Framework for Modeling Health Disparities in the Prevalence in Chronic Conditions following a Natural Disaster Event
• Chapter 23: Exploring Socio-Technical Design of Crisis Management Information Systems
• Chapter 24: Sociotechnical Uses of Social Web Tools during Disasters
• Chapter 25: Information Security in Data and Storage Grids through GS3
• Chapter 26: Cyber Security in Liquid Petroleum Pipelines
• Chapter 27: Security of Railway Infrastructures
• Chapter 28: Attackers
• Chapter 29: Rethinking Ethics Education in Business Schools in the Post-Financial Crisis Epoch
• Chapter 30: A Critical Assessment of the Oath Project
• Chapter 31: Emergency Management Professional Development
• Section 3: Managerial Impact
• Managerial Impact: Preface
• Chapter 32: Teaching Group Decision Making Skills to Emergency Managers via Digital Games
• Chapter 33: Nonparametric Correspondence Analysis of Global Risk Management Techniques
• Chapter 34: The Ways of Assessing the Security of Organization Information Systems through SWOT Analysis
• Chapter 35: Addressing the U.S. Federal Government Financial Crisis
• Chapter 36: Enterprise Information Security Policies, Standards, and Procedures
• Chapter 37: Attack Graphs and Scenario Driven Wireless Computer Network Defense
• Chapter 38: Multilingual Crisis Knowledge Representation
• Chapter 39: The Effect of Crises on Leadership
• Chapter 40: Resilient Emergency Response
• Chapter 41: Reaching Citizen 2.0
• Chapter 42: Incident Command Situation Assessment Utilizing Video Feeds from UAVs
• Section 4: Tools and Technologies
• Tools and Technologies: Preface
• Chapter 44: Using Geospatial Web Services Holistically in Emergency Management
• Chapter 45: The Socio-Ethical Considerations Surrounding Government Mandated Location-Based Services during Emergencies
• Chapter 46: Spectrum Sensing in Emergency Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
• Chapter 47: Eliciting Local Spatial Knowledge for Community-Based Disaster Risk Management
• Chapter 48: The Blogosphere in the “Land of Smiles”
• Chapter 49: Initial Requirements of National Crisis Decision Support System
• Chapter 50: Supporting Domain Ontology through a Metamodel
• Chapter 51: A Fuzzy Approach to Disaster Modeling
• Chapter 52: Planning for Hurricane Isaac using Probability Theory in a Linear Programming Model
• Chapter 53: Soft Computing Modeling of Wild Fire Risk Indices
• Chapter 54: A Forest Fire Detection System
• Chapter 55: Security Issues on Outlier Detection and Countermeasure for Distributed Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks
• Chapter 56: Secure Route Discovery in DSR against Black Hole Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
• Chapter 57: The Use of RFID Technologies for E-Enabling Logistics Supply Chains
• Section 5: Utilization and Application
• Utilization and Application: Preface
• Chapter 43: Using an Agent-Based Behavior Modeling for Finding Humanitarian Relief Center Location in an Earthquake Zone
• Chapter 58: Malware Protection on RFID-Enabled Supply Chain Management Systems in the EPCglobal Network
• Chapter 59: General Outlook on Financial Structure and Capital Adequacy of ISE-30 Companies during Economic Crisis (2008-2009)
• Chapter 60: The Impact of Crises
• Chapter 61: Economics and Practical Applications for Applied Trauma Theory
• Chapter 62: Disaster Impact and Country Logistics Performance
• Chapter 63: Risk Management in a Pandemic Crisis at a Global Non Profit Health Care Organization
• Chapter 64: Media Management in Disaster Events
• Chapter 65: Social Media, New ICTs and the Challenges Facing the Zimbabwe Democratic Process
• Chapter 66: Developing and Maintaining Trust in Hastily Formed Relief Networks
• Chapter 67: City Networks in Cyberspace and Time
• Chapter 68: School Districts Stumbled on Data Privacy
• Chapter 69: Data Mining Techniques to Improve Early Warning Systems across the Bay of Bengal
• Chapter 70: ICT Resilience as Dynamic Process and Cumulative Aptitude
• Section 6: Emerging Trends
• Emerging Trends: Preface
• Chapter 71: Safety and Security in SCADA Systems Must be Improved through Resilience Based Risk Management
• Chapter 72: Exercise24
• Chapter 73: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Considerations for Healthcare Technology
• Chapter 74: Crisis Management in the Public Sector
• Chapter 75: Improving Long-Term Financial Risk Forecasts using High-Frequency Data and Scaling Laws
• Chapter 76: Role of Accounting and Audit in the Recent Financial Crisis
• Chapter 77: Intellectual Capital Explains a Country's Resilience to Financial Crisis
• Chapter 78: A Descriptive Approach for Power System Stability and Security Assessment
• Chapter 79: Effective Infrastructure Protection through Virtualization
• Chapter 80: A Proactive Defense Strategy to Enhance Situational Awareness in Computer Network Security
• Chapter 81: Risk Assessment and Real Time Vulnerability Identification in IT Environments
• Chapter 82: Performance Metrics and Models for Continuous Authentication Systems
• Chapter 83: Security and Mobility Aspects of Femtocell Networks
• Chapter 84: Security Risks/Vulnerability in a RFID System and Possible Defenses
• Chapter 85: Identification and Authentication for RFID Systems
• Chapter 86: Application of Cyber Security in Emerging C4ISR Systems
• Chapter 87: Cyber Defense Competitions as Learning Tools