Cyber Security Concerns for Emergency Management
J. Jessie · InTech eBooks · 2012
This chapter will explore how cyber security concerns related to the uncertainty of emergency management tasks can be addressed for secure EM.In addition, we examine www.intechopen.comEmergency Management 40 how cyber situational awareness can exploit the mediating role of knowledge sharing and integration to enhance EM tasks. Emergency management community of practiceFriedman and Wyman (2006) theorized that technology has leveled or "flattened" the global playing field that once existed.This flattening has happened as a result of what they call the "triple convergence" of platform, process and people.When an innovative platform takes hold, processes that use the platform must change.This is especially true in contemporary EM communities.If the right people are available, trained, adept and able to adopt technology and process paradigms, they become the third prong of the triple convergence.EM has witnessed this transformation.In 2007 in both process and technology utilization, Dr. Wayne Blanchard of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s Emergency Management Higher Education Project (FMHEP) developed the EM community's strongest set of guiding principles for EM, all of which relied on cyberinfrastructure resources (Abbott, Hetzel, & American Bar Association.Section of State and Local Government Law., 2010;Lansford, 2010; LearningExpress (Organization), 2010).These principles are the governing rules that direct EM activities within each EM tasks directly.They include: How to referenceIn order to correctly reference this scholarly work, feel free to copy and paste the following: Jessie J. Walker (2012).Cyber Security Concerns for Emergency Management, Emergency Management, Dr.