Practical Aviation Security

Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, Fourth Edition

This guide to the aviation security system covers crucial historical events, policies, policymakers, and major terrorist and criminal acts that have shaped current procedures. It also explores cutting-edge technologies shaping the future of aviation security.

Using case studies and practical security measures in use at airports worldwide, readers learn effective methods and fundamental principles involved in designing and implementing a security system. The expanded fourth edition addresses new threats and technologies, reflecting the latest knowledge from the past decade.

This book is ideal for airport, airline, charter, government, and other professionals with aviation security responsibilities. It helps them better implement security programs, evaluate the evolving 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