DHS still has the lead for the US Government in the cyber arena. That responsibility is a hold over from the Bush Administration. Many experts feel that since DHS could not gain sufficient traction in this area, they should have the duty removed, and given to someone else in the government.
We all know that President Obama has a lot on his plate right now. He is still trying to get the economy moving, North Korea is being troublesome, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind on, and of course there is the contentious Heath Care Reform debate. As a citizen, I am sympathetic to the President’s plight, as a cyber security specialist, I am running out of patience.
Perimeter security: much is yet to be done – Homeland Security News Wire Multiple jurisdictions, a large number of stake holders, and lack of extensive and specific mandates from TSA make airport perimeter security a daunting task — a task which many airports are yet to address effectively
Currently, goods driven from the interior of Mexico arrive at the border where they are transferred to another truck with driver that crosses the border and clears customs. The cargo is then transferred to a third – U.S. based – shipper and delivered to its final destination. My niece could spot the glaring inefficiencies in this current system. She’s seven.
Admiral Thad Allen, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, has been on a mission for going on three years now: To raise awareness of the security vulnerabilities presented by small boats on America’s largely unregulated and unrestricted waterways.
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.
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.
For as much as we all love to talk about everything under the sun, as Americans, we’re more doers than we are talkers. We just go do things and that’s how we got started in this thing we call, “homeland security.” Nearly eight years after 9/11, we are finally making time to have some long-overdue conversations and defining what it means to make the homeland secure.
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.
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