 The threat of outsourcing US ports operation to any terrorist country supporter: a case study using fault tree analysisMauricio F. Blos, Hui-Ming Wee and Leopoldo Eduardo Cardenas-Barron International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences, 2009, vol. 1, issue 4, 411-427 Abstract: The possibility of any chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) weapon and/or material to be used in a shipment as a terrorist attack is considered a threat. The objective of this case study is to use fault tree analysis (FTA) to assess the threat to outsource the US ports to any terrorist country supporter. Thus, it was suggested a two-stage process to achieve this: problem formulation to define and rank scenarios, then quantitative risk assessment of selected, more highly ranked, scenarios. The quantitative risk assessment used here is considering two bioterrorist scenarios (projecting the past): the actual 1984 Rajneeshee incident in Oregon and a hypothetical release of oral anthrax into the food supply system. It is worthwhile to highlight that we have demonstrated with the use of FTA that a biological case scenario is possible if a terrorist attack happen. Keywords: FTA; fault tree analysis; problem formulation; risk assessment; security risk; terrorist attack; outsourcing; US ports; port operations; terrorist support; USA; United States; terrorist threat; bioterrorism. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijidsc:v:1:y:2009:i:4:p:411-427 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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