Tag: Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

In a May report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report assessing the U.S. government’s preparedness for biological threat agents…

Earlier this week, President Obama issued a memorandum calling for an interagency Unified Coordination Group to respond to the influx of unaccompanied alien children across the U.S. southwest border…

On February 12, NIST released the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The framework was developed by hundreds of companies, several federal agencies, and many international contributors as a how-to cybersecurity guide…

A Government Accountability Office report released in November of this year assesses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s efforts in disaster and emergency management since Hurricane Katrina in 2005…

This October was the tenth annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month. This year’s theme was “Our Shared Responsibility,” and focused on future cybersecurity challenges…

The Government Accountability Office recently released a report that reviewed the level of preparation of U.S. cities considered to be at high risk of a nuclear terrorist attack. The report stressed the importance of interagency involvement in preparing for and responding to a nuclear disaster…

In June, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report addressing DHS efforts to secure the southwest border, interagency oversight and information sharing efforts related to the southwest border, and DHS management of assets used to secure the southwest border…

On June 20, the Obama Administration released the 2013 Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Joint Strategic Plan which will help guide Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies’ efforts to combat the theft of intellectual property…

FEMA recently released updated editions of three of their five National Planning Frameworks. The National Planning Frameworks are part of FEMA’s National Preparedness System, which includes one Framework for each of the five preparedness mission areas…

In February 2013, the White House released the Presidential Policy Directive on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience, which promotes unity of effort to strengthen and maintain secure and resilient critical infrastructure, and tasks government entities with securing critical infrastructure…