Opinion

Container Security: Is the Layered Approach Working?

Guest columnist Jim Giermanski says the government's five-layered approach to container security is on the right track, but needs significant improvements

By James Giermanski

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The international call centers or control centers that interact with smart container messages also sever as third party verifiers of the container's integrity and global movement. Smart boxes are essential to improving supply-chain security. They must be included in CBP's layered approach. They already exist. Unfortunately, it appears that CBP does not know that.

All security systems are penetrable with enough time, money, knowledge or inside help. Good security systems limit that probability. The layered approach is good. It just needs to be better. And it can be better with two additions: "boots on the ground" counterintelligence and the use of smart containers.

Dr. James Giermanski is chairman of transportation security company Powers International and Director of the Centre for Global Commerce at Belmont Abbey College.

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