National Response Framework: National Incident Management System

Throughout its history, FEMA has had two main missions. First, FEMA’s mission is to enhance the federal government 's capacity to deal with and survive foreign attacks. The main types of foreign attacks that FEMA is tasked to respond to relate to terrorist attacks and nuclear war. The second mission of FEMA is to assist state and local authori¬ties to respond to man-made and natural disasters that are to enormous for the local and state resources to respond to efficiently. While national security focuses more on civil defense, state and local authorities are more focused on natural disasters such as hurricanes, storms, floods and potential nuclear power accidents. These divergent focuses really presents FEMA with huge challenges since federal security authorities’ main objective is quite different from state or local authorities’ focus. Considering that FEMA designed the Federal Response Plan, the agency has the challenge of balancing these interests while working on its two key missions.

The CPG 101 incorporates the concepts of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) into the planning guide. NIMS is the result of Homeland Security Directive Five. The directive came from President Bush February 28, 2003. The goal of NIMS was to offer a necessary foundation for emergency management to identify, prepare, respond and recover in any emergent situation. The approach and vocabulary established with NIMS remains the same nationwide to ensure consistency.

The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) stemmed from a mid-1980s report, is an incident-based reporting system (some states use a customized version) that is used by law enforcement agencies in the United States for the collecting and reporting of data on crimes that are known by police. NIBRS is the result of law enforcement thoroughly evaluating and modernizing the UCR (Uniform Crime Reports). The UCR, produced by the FBI, was initially developed by the IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police) in 1931 in which police departments across jurisdictions could exchange information in regards to crime. Local, state and federal agencies generate NIBRS data from their

The NRF provides for 15 “emergency support functions” (ESFs), including Emergency Support Function-13 (ESF-13), which covers public safety and security. The ESF-13 from FEMA details support services related to Public Safety and Security. The primary agency in control of ESF #13 is the Department of Justice/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. The ATF’s efforts are to support the full range of incident management activities by coordinating and integrating public safety and security capabilities and resources. The Department of Justice designated the ATF to manage/coordinate the functions of ESF-13. As part of the National Response Plan, ESF-13 involves the coordination of federal law enforcement

Better than any ancestor archive, the NRF characterizes and adjusts the parts of individual residents; the private segment; non-legislative associations; nearby chose or designated authorities; (the Mayor or city chief with his or her neighborhood crisis supervisor and office and organization heads); the Governor with his or her State Homeland Security Manager, State Emergency Manager and division and office heads; with the Federal government beginning with the President and portraying the parts of the Homeland Security Council (HSC), National Security Council (NSC), the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Director of National Intelligence and every

Police are on duty and avaliable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. The officers are the only “first responders” that are working every second so they have the responsibility to be at any accident, even the situations that are outside of the normal duties. The National Response Framework is very help when it comes to being responsive. They are intended to work in connection with the National Incident Management System (Cordner, 2016.) Being able to be a fast responder is benefical to not only the protection of our country but also the law enforcement officers working for our country. By communicating with the NRF helps police departments, fire departments, health services, emergency room management as well as any other personnel that needs to be notified when it comes to an incident. The value of the Incident Command System is very evident to most police agencies that ave ever had to deal with a hostage crisis or other life-threatening even that required coordinated resposes and approach (Cordner, 2016.) In any natural disaster or any terroristic threat effected by our country every level of the law enforcement agencies should be notified, from the local, state, and as well as the federal and be responsive to the two

NIMS components include preparedness, communications and information management, resource management, command and management and ongoing management and maintenance.

National Response Framework The National Response Framework addressed the problems in the National Response Plan and was developed as a framework instead of a plan. It provides policy and guiding principles for a unified response from all levels of government, all sectors of communities, to all types of hazards regardless of their origin (Lindsay, 2008). It is not an operational plan, it is a framework that permits for flexibility that allows responders how to choose to respond to an incident. One benefit of the NRF is that DHS keeps the document “live” which means it is constantly being updated as new methods or disaster responses are acted on.

First, Incident Response (IR) plan “is a detailed set of processes and procedures that anticipate, detect, and mitigate the effects of an unexpected event that might compromise information resources and assets.” (Whitman, 2013, p. 85). Consequently, Incident response planning (IRP) is the planning for an incident, which occurs when an attack affects information systems causing disruptions. On the other hand, Disaster Recovery (DR) plan “entails the preparation for and recovery from a disaster, whether natural or human-made.” (Whitman, 2013, p. 97). For instance, events categorized as disasters include fire, flood, storm or earthquake. Thus, the differences between an Incident Response (IR) plan and a Disaster Recovery (DR)

NIMS and NRF are escort documents and are intended to improve the National and National Response incident management capabilities.

Today, the Incident Command System (ICS) is a major component of NIMS and is widely used in emergency management response. However, this was not always the case. According to David A. McEntire and Gregg Dawson, authors of the article, “The intergovernmental Context,” ICS was originally developed by the fire service in 1970. Its purpose was to assist in the command of wildfire events. It was unique because it standardized operations, yet offered flexibility so that it could be used on any number of events, regardless of size or type (McEntire & Dawson, 2007, p. 63).

Why is it a good idea to include human resources on the incident response management team?

* Rank order (in order of priority) the 14 core capabilities of the NRF. Explain why you rank ordered 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Be specific.

The security incident management policy of Blyth’s Books is quite comprehensive in the aspect of the detection and reporting of information security events. Detection and reporting of a security incident is vital for an organisation’s survival. If an organisation’s stakeholders and employees cannot detect when an incident has occurred or have detected one but cannot report owing to the fact that how and whom to report to is unknown, the remainder of the incident management procedure which is aimed at getting the organisation back on its feet information security wise cannot be put into process. No one can handle or respond to an incident they have no knowledge of. The security incident management policy of Blyth’s Books was pretty comprehensive in outlining what security incidents are and how they could be identified by those covered in the scope of the policy. A review of Norwegian organisations and institutions performed in 2005 where strategies for data security incidents were analysed demonstrated that statistics

Hurricane Katrina exposed huge issues in the United States disaster preparedness and response programs. In 2005, the structure for homeland security was unable to manage catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina. Unified management of national response