E-Commerce Vulnerabilities: Impacts on the Transportation System: Background Paper
This background paper outlines the elements of emerging vulnerabilities in today's information - or cyber - systems supporting electronic commerce in transportation. The paper creates a framework to address system threats and vulnerabilities through sequential processes of risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication. The framework will serve as a point of reference for upcoming analyses of transportation cyber vulnerabilities. In support of a General Accounting Office (GAO) call for a national threat and risk assessment in their report titled "Combating Terrorism: Selected Challenges and Related Recommendations" (September 2001), this paper proposes a process for identifying the national information technology (IT) assets, their vulnerability to disruptive threats, the consequences of disruption, and effective countermeasures. This paper focuses on risk characterization: linking risk assessment to risk management and risk communication, and identifying the economic and technological forces underlying the emerging vulnerabilities.
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Supplemental Notes:
- The bibliography and appendices are not present in the online version of this paper.
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Corporate Authors:
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Cambridge, MA United States 02142 - Publication Date: 2002-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Bibliography;
- Pagination: 29p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Assets; Countermeasures; Economics; Electronic commerce; Freight transportation; Information technology; Risk assessment; Risk management; Threats
- Uncontrolled Terms: Cyber security; Cyberterrorism; Risk communication; Vulnerabilities
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Freight Transportation; Security and Emergencies;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01675683
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: Jul 23 2018 12:13PM