The Merriam-Webster defines terrorism as the systematic use of terror especially as means of coercion. Terrorism affects and influences everyone’s lives in one way or another, it alters businesses and their transactions, and it changes the entire country and how it runs. Terrorism cost us lots of money. We must pay to protect important public figures, vital institutions, the government itself and last but not least the citizens. It makes traveling a hassle. And it even affects how we live our every day life.

Now what do we do to prevent these acts of terror? The government has raised security almost everywhere. They have adjusted the physical security, which is basically just adding extra personnel to different areas of high risk. The main areas that you notice this are in the airports and other potential high-risk areas. They have also increased the number of penetration teams. These teams work to find holes in security systems. Their entire job is to try and sneak through security. This way they find the wholes and fix them. They have tightened operational security. This is when they tighten the security of the company’s information. They encode and put pass codes on the vital information and procedures that companies use. This way the information cannot fall into the wrong hands. Lastly they have taken the steps to train and take their personnel to the next level of security awareness. They train them to look for certain things and who to and not to be suspicious of. Since September 11 the security in airports has been drastically increased. They have banned curbside check-in of luggage, severely limited the amount of e-tickets they give out, restricted areas beyond the security check in to ticketed passengers only, and assigned National Guard troops to areas visible throughout the airport (Combs, 241).

The government has spread itself throughout the country and spent lots of money to help fight the war on terrorism. They have almost eliminated the Al-Kida forces in the Middle East and they are moving on to other terrorist groups that may cause us ha

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