![Page 1: Thinking Like A Terrorist: Technique for Teaching Adults Homeland Security](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022072013/56812a82550346895d8e162e/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Thinking Like A Terrorist:Technique for Teaching Adults
Homeland Security
Daniel C. Goodrich
![Page 2: Thinking Like A Terrorist: Technique for Teaching Adults Homeland Security](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022072013/56812a82550346895d8e162e/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Can you identify these items?
![Page 3: Thinking Like A Terrorist: Technique for Teaching Adults Homeland Security](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022072013/56812a82550346895d8e162e/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
What are we trying to accomplish
• Increase individual situational awareness• Develop skill sets for personnel in other
disciplines who can apply their problem solving abilities to help improve security
• Develop champions throughout institutions who can assist their organization’s security
• Change people’s perspectives and behavior
![Page 4: Thinking Like A Terrorist: Technique for Teaching Adults Homeland Security](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022072013/56812a82550346895d8e162e/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Current training strategy
• Talk about threats in vague terms. “It’s all right out there on the internet on how to do it.”
• Does not explain how a perpetrator goes through the planning, surveillance, accumulating resources, rehearsals, and execution
• Offer little/no information on the other side’s limits of applying tactical knowledge. “Superman effect”
![Page 5: Thinking Like A Terrorist: Technique for Teaching Adults Homeland Security](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022072013/56812a82550346895d8e162e/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Another way• Focus on how a perpetrator would carry out
an attack• Look for the vulnerabilities in carrying out that
attack• Treat the technology/tools/tactics as neutral• Introduce security as using the perpetrator’s
thought process but in terms of how to slow down/recognize/compromise/deter the attack
![Page 6: Thinking Like A Terrorist: Technique for Teaching Adults Homeland Security](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022072013/56812a82550346895d8e162e/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Examples of Neutral Items
• Similarities between alarm systems and switches for bombs
• Sabotage instructions written for resistance groups by state actors
• Review of “softer” groups (ELF and ALF) material available on the internet
• Law enforcement training materials and memos• Reading “backwards”
![Page 7: Thinking Like A Terrorist: Technique for Teaching Adults Homeland Security](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022072013/56812a82550346895d8e162e/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Questions?
Daniel C Goodrich MPA, CEMResearch Associate
Mineta Transportation [email protected]
408/807-0930