Preparing for the Worst in Cyber Security
Amit Yoran
May 27, 2009
The high-tech professionals entrusted to protect and preserve a company’s – or country’s – IT networks do not always recognize that their first operational priority should be the protection of their own equipment, specifically including detection and encryption systems and devices.
Mass Prophylaxis: The Brass Ring of Public Health Preparedness
Bruce Clements
May 27, 2009
It sounds like a mission impossible, but U.S. public health officials are determined to find a way to provide pandemic medications, within 48 hours, to everyone within a major metropolitan area endangered by pandemic influenza or a potentially lethal bioterrorism attack.
Questions of Preparedness: A Spring of Tragedy for Law Enforcement
Joseph W. Trindal
May 27, 2009
The murder of a police officer is both a community and personal tragedy. Better equipment and improved training are helping to improve survivability, but society’s criminal element has access to the same equipment and the result has been an increase in law-enforcement fatalities.
Department of Defense (DOD) 2009 Annual Report to Congress on Joint Chemical and Biological Defense Programs (CBDP)
Domestic Preparedness
May 27, 2009
This report details the progress made over the last year to protect the United States & U.S. allies from current and emerging threats posed by weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Top 100 Infrastructure Projects in the United States
Domestic Preparedness
May 26, 2009
CG/LA Infrastructure recently listed the top 100 infrastructure projects in the United States; the list focuses on projects that will generate long-term increased competitiveness in the U.S. economy. http://www.domesticpreparedness.com/userfiles/reports/top100projects.pdf
Field Testing or LRN Laboratories - Why Not Both?
Rob Schnepp
May 20, 2009
First responders & emergency managers must make many difficult decisions. One of the most consequential involves choosing between the field testing of potential biological agents at the scene of an incident & the safer but slower option of waiting for verified lab results.
Worst-Case Scenario: Pakistan Falls to the Taliban
Neil C. Livingstone
May 20, 2009
Israel & India could be first in the line of fire if the resurgent terrorist group gains
control of Islamabad’s nuclear arsenal, but the United States would not be immune from attacks that
could potentially evolve into a global nuclear holocaust.
License Plate Readers: Automated Situational Awareness
Rodrigo (Roddy) Moscoso
May 13, 2009
LPR systems are resented by drivers who are caught speeding and/or running stoplights. The same technology can be used, though, to quickly identify stolen cars and for other equally important law-enforcement tasks.
Isolation, Quarantine, and the Compression of Time
Joseph Cahill
May 13, 2009
At one time it took 80 days to go around the world. It now takes only one day. The speed of person-to-person communications has dropped from several weeks to instantaneous. Unfortunately, medical capabilities have not moved forward at quite the same pace.
Federal Homeland Security Grant Tail Wags Far Larger State and Local Spending Dog
Matt Mayer
May 12, 2009
An analysis of federal, state, and local homeland security budgets.