Module 2 Flashcards
1540
Personnel, employees, passengers, companies.
Applies to everyone
Allows TSA to fine people
1520
SSI
1503
Enforcement/compliance
How to respond to an LOI.
1544
Aircraft operator security
Part 121 Airline
Part 125 air cargo
1546
Foreign air carrier security
Flies into/out of US.
1550
Security program for charters above 12,500 pounds
1548
Indirect air carrier
Freight forwarder
1542
Airport security
SSI
Be detrimental to the security of transportation
What level of information can an ASC get up to?
Secret
What are the levels of classified information?
Confidential – damaging
Secret Dash seriously
Top secret – gravely
Which airport documents are never SSI?
AEP
ALP
Master plan
Define TLO and what is the highest clearance they can receive?
Terrorism liaison officer
Top-secret clearance
When is STA required?
When applying for secured, SIDA or sterile area access.
Conducted annually
The ASP contains:
Description of security areas credentialing process Law-enforcement Escort procedures Challenge procedures SIDA training ports of entry Contingencies/incident management Record keeping and SSI Exclusive area agreements
TSA amendment
Gives airport operator 30 days to comply
Airport operator amendments
Must give TSA 45 days to review
Changed condition
How much time to notify TSA?
Unplanned changes to the ASP.
Six hours to notify TSA
If the condition last for more than 60 days, Airport must submit an amendment.
Security directives
When there is an immediate threat or need to change security procedures.
Deadlines for implementing directions are written within Each SD.
TSA normally issues SDs
Authorized signatory
Main function:
Request the issuance of an ID badge
Add or alter access rights
Performance measures for access control on AOA
Detect Deter Prevent
What three elements are required for a SIDA?
Training
CHRC/STA
ID display /challenge
allow authorized access
Deny unauthorized access
Differentiate access authority
Exit lane protection
ASAP states who is responsible
Adjacent to screening check. TSA
Physically separated from checkpoint – airport
Secured area access control requirements
Alarm notification in response
Sweep of the area
limit access to only those necessary
Make sure the access authorities in writing.
Types of barriers
Physical
Electronic
Natural
Access points
Direct ramp observer
When an airport doesn’t need a full security program and are GA operations for most of the time.
Example is Lake Tahoe airport
British Airways insider threat 2011
Plan to bomb a transit lentic flight and also plotted to attack the computer system
TWA flight 8 47
1985
Catering personal smuggled guns and hand grenades so that hijackers could clear screening. A US Navy diver Robert Stetham was killed.
The weapons were placed in the lavatory.
British Airways insider threat 2011
Plan to bomb a transit lentic flight and also plotted to attack the computer system
TWA flight 847
1985
Catering personal smuggled guns and hand grenades so that hijackers could clear screening. A US Navy diver Robert Stetham was killed.
The weapons were placed in the lavatory.
Captain John TesTrake and flight attendant Uli Derickson.
Lesson learned: once on the ground keep the aircraft on the ground and flight crew training
PSA flight 1771
A former airline employee brought down the plane by bringing a gun on board after it had been terminated from employment but his credentials had not been confiscated. He killed his supervisor it was commuting on the flight then shot both pilots aircraft crash killing off 44 on board.
Pan Am flight 103
Libyan airlines employee placed a bomb on the plane killing 270 people including 11 on the ground in the town of Lockerbie Scotland.
How long do fingerprint and badge applications have to be retained?
180 days after individual no longer needs badge.
TSA fine
Up to $11,000
Voluntary disclosure to TSA
Written report to TSA within 10 days
Should be able to get out of the fine
Voluntary disclosure to TSA
Written report to TSA within 10 days
Should be able to get out of the fine
TSA fine
Up to $11,000
GA
77% of all flights in US
Contributes over 100 billion annually
Employees over 630,000 people
1993 agricultural aircraft
Osama bin Laden assess potential use to deliver chemical weapon
1994 White House lawn
Successfully flu hey says the 150 on the White House lawn crushing the plane into two stores below where the president Clinton’s bedroom was located.
Operation Bojinka 1995
GA aircraft flown into headquarters of CIA
Tampa Florida 2002
Cessna flew into side of a building (Bank of America).
IRS building Austin Texas 2010
Aircraft smashed into IRS building
Maryland – three
College park,
Potomac airfield, Washington executive (HYDE field)
GA airports that have an ASP
Part 1562
PIDS
Perimeter intrusion detection system
Virtual fence PIDS
Microwave sensors
Photo electric
radar
seismic sensors
Fence mounted PIDS
Fiber optic
Microphonic sensor
Electrostatic sensor
Embedded smart fence PIDS
Taut wires
Electric fences
Video type PIDS
Video cameras and video analytics
Thermal imaging
Mobile detection assessment response system (MDARS)
Autonomous vehicle
Prisoner escorts
Two armed LEOs per one high risk prisoner
One armed LEO per one low risk prisoner (4hrs or less)
Indirect air carriers
Shippers that routinely ship cargo on an air carrier.
Also known as freight forwarders.
Operate under the indirect air carrier standard security program or IACSSP.
