One of the key objectives of America's national policy is to make Americans less vulnerable to terrorism and to deter terrorist attacks both home and abroad. The federal government has put in place several measures to achieve this objective (Patel)
government can also use its military equipments, such as drones to neutralize the ability of terrorist organizations to carry out attacks. The government is already doing this by conducting drone strikes on IS targets in Syria (Ramirez et al
Federal Government Response to Protect Americans From Attacks Targeting Civilians With the rise of the Islamic state, many more people are becoming aware of global Islamist terrorism. The group's ability to carry out attacks on Western capitals is also causing concerns among security policymakers all over the world (Usher)
The Target Corp has also incurred a significant costs to improve their IT security to prevent a future attack. (Riley, & Pagliery,2015)