The homeland security bill meets the prevention portion of the preparedness cycle by mitigation, which provides the necessary capabilities to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters (Cordner, 2016) mainly through collaboration, in addition to information sharing, threat recognition, target hardening or risk management, and intervention (Pelfrey, 2012). This applies to terrorism and transnational crime (intentional acts by people), with hopes to prevent a number of those
Department will use the Department of Homeland Security’s government Facilities Sector plan as an additional tool in creating a plan of action when developing methods of protection. 1. Create a cyber-taskforce and implementation of an assessment of all security systems and infrastructure. 2. Identify the assessment team members and schedule a meeting. 3. Become familiar with information about the organization's system and network by reviewing policies and procedures, network topology diagrams, inventory lists
What role does risk management play within the homeland security enterprise? To answer that question we first have to examine what risk management is. Risk management is an anaclitic approach to figuring out the likelihood that an event will impact a specific assets, person, or function and then implementing steps to mitigate the impact or consequence of the event. (Decker, 2001) The Standard risk management formula that the Department of Homeland Security uses is R=T*V*C or Risk = Threat * Vulnerability
Introduction With the events that happened on September 11, 2001, the American people and all government leadership realized that the U.S. was fight a whole new other type of war. The U.S. has dealt with foreign terrorist networks abroad and the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. With the tragic event of 9/11, it became something of a nightmare because no American in history had the knowledge to deal with this kind of attack. Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) wants nothing more than to destroy
Who is an emergency manger and what do they do? Generally, the emergency manager is responsible for the emergency management program within their county, city or designated area of control. From a layman point of view, programs may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and will contain Local Emergency Operations Plan and Hazardous Materials Plan. In years past the role of an emergency manager did not require a degree. It seems credentials were earned by application, typically acquired from the emergency
The Biggest Threat to Homeland Security The current threats Homeland Security faces ranges through a variety of topics, however, it is believed that the biggest threat to homeland security is currently cybersecurity. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines cybersecurity as measures taken to protect a computer or computer system against unauthorized access or attack. From this definition, it can be noted that computer systems have become an essential in our day to day lives. There are now computer
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recognized 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks are considered vital to the United States and if these sectors were incapacitated in any form, this would be detrimental to security, the economy, public and safety. These sectors are identified as the following (Department of Homeland Security, n.d.): 1. Chemical Sector 2. Communication Sector 3. Dam Sector 4. Emergency Services Sector 5. Financial Services Sector 6. Government
a focal point of the American people. The focus of homeland security is to ensure that the citizens of the United States are protected under its Umbrella. Homeland security is not a new concept. Although the Department of Homeland Security is only a few decades old, the concept and principles have been in place since the existence of our country. Throughout this course, the students have read and evaluated multiple factions of homeland security and the possibilities of what the future might hold
1. Purpose Among one of the missions of The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is to protect and preserve the security of the Cyberspace in the country. The principal objective of this Security Plan is to give instructions and direction for the Department’s workers and help the Homeland Security to create best practices and strategies in the IT security system. 2. Scope This policy needs to be applied to all users, employees, contractors, suppliers and to all IT resources such as e-mails, files
is to get a clear picture of the state of affairs. It is critical to analyze network maps, talk to the key witnesses of the disaster, learning the occurrences from the data available from the weather department in a bid to collect evidence. At this stage getting every log available is useful, thereby casting a wide net in order to capture the details of the occurrences including the causes. This includes getting information from all the relevant organizations involved in weather forecasting. In addition