Critical Infrastructure Protection Track

• This panel discussion will take a close look at some of the obstacles and challenges facing journalists when covering global counterterrorism issues including personal safety, scarce sources, controversial topics, and reporting from abroad.
• With a combined reporting experience of over 85 years, the esteemed journalists participating in the panel will sharing their experiences.

• Integral balance between dependent infrastructure services, resources, and capabilities.
• Vulnerability assessments and threat information to determining the risk of assets. (i.e. the expected consequences of specific types of attacks on specific assets)
• Use risk assessments to prioritize subsequent additional protection activities.
• Understand models/methodologies developed to determine the cost-effective allocation of resources to reduce risks.

• Understanding biological threats and Bio-Threat Security
• Chemical Defense Programs: Case Study
• Radiological Agents

• Thad Allen will share his experience directing the response to Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill along with his distinguished career as 23rd Commandant in the US Coast Guard to address incident response from a unique perspective: “Where Counterterrorism and Disaster Response Meet.”
• Are there differences in response to man-made vs. natural disasters? Allen will highlight the “unity of effort” in a global community—leadership, legal, policy and resource challenges.

Identifying Vulnerabilities and Reducing Risk with Integrated Management Systems: Performance Measures, Accountability, and Deterrence

• Integrated Security Management requires the capacity to detect, prevent, and limit consequences of deliberate or negligent acts across the supply and distribution chains.

• Focused on acts that would use hazardous materials, wastes, supply chain, or infrastructure as a weapon or means of delivering an attack.

• An All Hazards Approach to Risk Assessment