Whether businesses see the G20 as welcome or not, it does present an opportunity to revise and test business continuity plans. When information does become available, the business is ready for the worst case scenario and down-grade its planned response, rather than being forced to plan for difficult circumstances on the fly.
By Lynn Ann Casey
As DHS starts to create a new way to acquire solutions and considers whom to invite to the table, they currently faces two not-very-appetizing alternatives.
The desire to create a Cyber Czar not only is delaying the pursuit of the President’s priorities; it is creating an artificial separation of the physical and cyber world when the industry and the market are clearly moving toward convergence of the two domains.
Melissa Hathaway’s decision to leave the Administration simply confirms what everyone already knows – the Obama Administration’s cybersecurity initiative is being strangled in its crib.
As Congress has been unusually busy on a range of fronts – health care, executive compensation, climate change, even “cash for clunkers” – one front that has been unusually quiet has been the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill.
Global political and financial summits are held in the name of open dialogue and mutual collaboration. Those who attend but are outside the summit are, for the most part, here for the same reason, to project their message to those at the meeting, and to the wider world.
Mickey McCarter of HS Today spoke with Security Debrief contributor Randy Bearsworth about his recent appointment to Secretary Napolitano’s 60-day task force regarding the current terror alert system. Breadsworth, who most recently co-chaired the Presidential Study Directive-1 (PSD-1): Organizing for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, spoke with HS Today about the goals of the system and future of notifying both the public and government partners in the case of an emergency.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday called for more public participation to guard against terrorist threats, part of the Obama administration’s strategy to keep the country safe.
A recently article by Albor Ruiz, of the New York Daily News, unfairly characterizes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as demonizing our society. It’s a shame that the media focus on the sensational without providing context and balance, including the steps agents take to ensure their safety as well as the community at large during any operation.
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