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Preparedness and the Force of Law

whitepaper Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, President Bush issues a series of Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPD) designed to improve the nation's posture of preparedness. It is a long held and accepted legal tenet that a...

Tags: data sharing and integration

[16 May 2008]

Washington State First to Provide a U.S. Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) - Compliant Enhanced Driver License

whitepaper The Washington State Department of Licensing teamed with Washington Department of Information Services, Department of Homeland Security, Digimarc, and Microsoft to implement the Enhanced Driver License program.

Tags: network security

[03 May 2008]

A Comparison of Electrical Sector Cyber Security Standards and Guidelines

whitepaper This paper presents a review and comparison (commonality and differences) of five security standards and guidelines in the electrical distribution and control area. The comparison identifies security areas that are covered by each standard and/or...

Tags: security standards

[12 Apr 2008]

Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts

News Jordana Siegel, deputy director of outreach and awareness in the National Cyber Security Division of the US Department of Homeland Security, said: "We're seeing a constant increase in malicious code which includes botnets.

Tags: isps, law, fbi, security

[10 Apr 2008]

Homeland Insecurity

whitepaper The proposed Department of Homeland Security is intended to oversee a "national research and development enterprise for homeland security comparable for more than fifty years" - domestic version of the high-tech R&D juggernaut that produced...

Tags: anti-hacking, homeland, homeland security, tech

[10 Apr 2008]

Air and Water Monitoring for Homeland Security

whitepaper A critical element of homeland security lies in the vitality of the environment, which is primarily defined by the availability and quality of our air and water resources. Homeland security efforts must therefore include advanced understanding...

Tags: anti-hacking, air, water, disaster

[10 Apr 2008]

Domestic Dilemmas: U.S. Homeland Security Policy and Transatlantic Relations

whitepaper The purpose of this paper is to give the European audience some idea of the state and politics of homeland security in the United States and its implications for transatlantic security. This paper first explains some unique features of the domestic...

Tags: anti-hacking, implications, homeland security, united states

[10 Apr 2008]

H.R. 2898, a Bill to Improve Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Citizen Activated Emergency Response Capabilities Through the Use of Enhanced 911 Wireless Services

whitepaper This webcast discusses about H.R.a bill to improve homeland security, public safety, and citizen activated emergency response capabilities through the use of enhanced 911 wireless services.

Tags: anti-hacking, homeland, homeland security, enhanced

[10 Apr 2008]

Securing Our Future: Balancing Homeland Security With Corporate Prosperity

whitepaper This webcast discusses about balancing homeland security with corporate prosperity. CXO Media convened leaders from the forum's underwriting companies for an Expert Roundtable discussion about the hottest security issues of the day and their vision...

Tags: anti-hacking, homeland security, discussion, forum

[10 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Cyber Security and Computer Network Diagnostics

whitepaper Securing the nation's computer networks from cyber attack is an important aspect of Homeland Security. Project develops diagnostic tools for detecting security attacks, infrastructure failures, and other operational aberrations of computer networks.

Tags: network security, element, behavior, models

[10 Apr 2008]

Commercial Vehicle Radiological System Module of an Integrated Safety and Enforcement System for the 21st Century With Homeland Security Benefits

whitepaper This real-world testing addresses radiological and nuclear material detection in commerce and is part of a larger program entitled Performance-Based 21st Century Commercial Vehicle Inspection System, which is an Integrated Safety and Enforcement...

Tags: network security, testing, detection, commerce

[10 Apr 2008]

Creating the Department of Homeland Security: Consideration of the Administration's Proposal

whitepaper This webcast explains the proceedings on the first day of a multipart hearing to examine how the Bush Administration's proposal to establish a Department of Homeland Security will affect the agencies and the operations over which this committee...

Tags: anti-hacking, bush administration, homeland security, homeland

[10 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Network Analysis of Biological Integrity in Freshwater Streams

whitepaper This study employs the network version of the upper level set scan statistic to characterize biological impairment along the rivers and streams of Pennsylvania and to identify subnetworks that are badly impaired.

Tags: anti-hacking, streams, variables, impairment

[10 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and HotspotDetection for Homeland Security: Disaster Management: Oil Spill Detection, Monitoring, and Prioritization

whitepaper Damage produced by marine oil spills includes soiled beaches, bird and mammal mortality, destruction of fisheries, impaired recreational facilities, and catastrophic impairment to entire ecosystems. The scan statistic hotspot delineation and poset...

Tags: network security, detection, oil, marine

[10 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Crop Pathogens and Bioterrorism

whitepaper American agriculture is a widely dispersed enterprise crossing the entire continent. Disruption of American agriculture and food system could be catastrophic to the nation's stability The Atlantic Slope Consortium Project has the specific aim of...

Tags: network security, agriculture, aim, address

[10 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: West Nile Virus: An Illustration of the Early Warning Capability of the Scan Statistic

whitepaper West Nile virus is a serious mosquito-borne disease. The mosquito vector bites both humans and birds. Scan statistical detection of dead bird clusters provides an early crisis warning and allows targeted public education and increased mosquito...

Tags: anti-hacking, statistical, bird, monte carlo

[10 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Drinking Water Quality and Water Utility Vulnerability

whitepaper New York City has installed 892 drinking water sampling stations. About 47,000 water samples are analyzed annually. The ULS scan statistic will provide a real-time surveillance system for evaluating water quality across the distribution system.

Tags: network security, water, sampling, water quality

[10 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Tasking of Self-Organizing Surveillance Mobile Sensor Networks

whitepaper Many critical applications of surveillance sensor networks involve finding hotspots. The upper level set scan statistic is used to guide the search by estimating the location of hotspots based on the data previously taken by the surveillance network.

Tags: anti-hacking, search, guide, sensor

[10 Apr 2008]

UCSD Homeland Security Media Briefing

whitepaper This webcast highlights areas of research from airport security and blast protection to wireless sensors and new technologies to detect biological agents as well as cyber attacks via the Internet and describes the relevant research.

Tags: anti-hacking, agents, attacks, protection

[10 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Surveillance Network and Early Warning

whitepaper Emerging hotspots for disease or biological agents are identified by modeling events at local hospitals. A time-dependent crisis index is determined for each hospital in a network. The crisis index is used for hotspot detection by scan statistic...

Tags: security management, events, crisis, index

[10 Apr 2008]

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