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At Domestic Preparedness, we strive to keep people informed and aware of the latest preparedness news. Please see below for more detailed reports we obtain each month from various resources.
REPORTS
GAO – Emerging Cybersecurity Issues Threaten Federal Information Systems
June 21, 2005
“Federal agencies are facing a set of emerging cybersecurity threats that are the result of increasingly sophisticated methods of attack and the blending of once distinct types of attack into more complex and damaging forms. Examples of these include spa http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05231.pdf
Office of the Inspector General Releases a Review of the FBI’s Handling of Intelligence Information Related to the September 11 Attacks
June 21, 2005
This report is a redacted and unclassified version of the full report that the Office of the Inspector General completed in July 2004 and provided at that time to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of justice, the Congress, the Central In http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0506/final.pdf
GAO – Federal Agencies Need to Improve Controls over Wireless Networks
May 23, 2005
This report describes the benefits and challenges associated with securing wireless networks. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05383.pdf
GAO Report – Maritime Security – New Structures Have Improved Information Sharing, but Security Clearance Processing Requires Further Attention
May 23, 2005
To help ensure that nonfederal officials receive security clearances in a more timely fashion, GAO recommends that the Coast Guard (1) develop formal procedures to use data as a tool to monitor the security clearance program and (2) raise the awareness of http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05394.pdf
IACP’s Principals for a Locally Designed and Nationally Coordinated Homeland Security Strategy
May 23, 2005
“…there was a critical need to develop a new homeland security strategy, one that fully embraces the valuable and central role that must be played by the state, tribal, and local public safety community.” http://www.theiacp.org/leg_policy/HomelandSecurityWP.PDF
GAO Report – Preventing Nuclear Smuggling, DOE Has Made Limited Progress in Installing Rediation Detection Equipment at Highest Priority Foreign Seaports
May 9, 2005
“Gaining the cooperation of foreign governments has been difficult in part because some countries have concerns that screening large volumes of containers will create delays that could inhibit the flow of commerce at their ports.” http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05375.pdf
Office of the Inspector General Report on the FBI’s Efforts to Hire, Train, and Retrain Intelligence Analysts
May 9, 2005
This review found that “the FBI lacked the capability to prepare a strategic or ‘big picture’ threat assessment.” http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a0520/final.pdf
GAO – DHS: A comprehensive and Sustained Approach Needed to Achieve Management Integration
April 19, 2005
GAO recommends that the Secretary of DHS: (1) develop an overarching management integration strategy, and (2) provide its Business Transformation Office (BTO) with the authority and responsibility needed to serve as a dedicated integration team and help d http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05139.pdf
GAO – Management of First Responder Grant Programs and Efforts to Improve Accountability Continue to Evolve
April 19, 2005
ODP (Office of Domestic Preparedness) has taken steps to improve accountability in the state preparedness planning process, in part by requiring states to update homeland security strategies. In tandem with this effort, ODP revised its grant-reporting met http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05530t.pdf
GAO – Anthrax Detection – Agencies Need to Validate Sampling Activities in Order to Increase Conficence in Negative Results
April 12, 2005
GAO recommendes that the Department of Homeland Security develop a coordinated approach to work with federal agencies, so that appropriate validation studies of various activities involved in detecting anthrax are conducted. http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d05493thigh.pdf
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REPORTS
GAO – Emerging Cybersecurity Issues Threaten Federal Information Systems
June 21, 2005
“Federal agencies are facing a set of emerging cybersecurity threats that are the result of increasingly sophisticated methods of attack and the blending of once distinct types of attack into more complex and damaging forms. Examples of these include spa http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05231.pdf
Office of the Inspector General Releases a Review of the FBI’s Handling of Intelligence Information Related to the September 11 Attacks
June 21, 2005
This report is a redacted and unclassified version of the full report that the Office of the Inspector General completed in July 2004 and provided at that time to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of justice, the Congress, the Central In http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0506/final.pdf
GAO – Federal Agencies Need to Improve Controls over Wireless Networks
May 23, 2005
This report describes the benefits and challenges associated with securing wireless networks. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05383.pdf
GAO Report – Maritime Security – New Structures Have Improved Information Sharing, but Security Clearance Processing Requires Further Attention
May 23, 2005
To help ensure that nonfederal officials receive security clearances in a more timely fashion, GAO recommends that the Coast Guard (1) develop formal procedures to use data as a tool to monitor the security clearance program and (2) raise the awareness of http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05394.pdf
IACP’s Principals for a Locally Designed and Nationally Coordinated Homeland Security Strategy
May 23, 2005
“…there was a critical need to develop a new homeland security strategy, one that fully embraces the valuable and central role that must be played by the state, tribal, and local public safety community.” http://www.theiacp.org/leg_policy/HomelandSecurityWP.PDF
GAO Report – Preventing Nuclear Smuggling, DOE Has Made Limited Progress in Installing Rediation Detection Equipment at Highest Priority Foreign Seaports
May 9, 2005
“Gaining the cooperation of foreign governments has been difficult in part because some countries have concerns that screening large volumes of containers will create delays that could inhibit the flow of commerce at their ports.” http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05375.pdf
Office of the Inspector General Report on the FBI’s Efforts to Hire, Train, and Retrain Intelligence Analysts
May 9, 2005
This review found that “the FBI lacked the capability to prepare a strategic or ‘big picture’ threat assessment.” http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a0520/final.pdf
GAO – DHS: A comprehensive and Sustained Approach Needed to Achieve Management Integration
April 19, 2005
GAO recommends that the Secretary of DHS: (1) develop an overarching management integration strategy, and (2) provide its Business Transformation Office (BTO) with the authority and responsibility needed to serve as a dedicated integration team and help d http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05139.pdf
GAO – Management of First Responder Grant Programs and Efforts to Improve Accountability Continue to Evolve
April 19, 2005
ODP (Office of Domestic Preparedness) has taken steps to improve accountability in the state preparedness planning process, in part by requiring states to update homeland security strategies. In tandem with this effort, ODP revised its grant-reporting met http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05530t.pdf
GAO – Anthrax Detection – Agencies Need to Validate Sampling Activities in Order to Increase Conficence in Negative Results
April 12, 2005
GAO recommendes that the Department of Homeland Security develop a coordinated approach to work with federal agencies, so that appropriate validation studies of various activities involved in detecting anthrax are conducted. http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d05493thigh.pdf
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