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Security Management News
| Jane's Releases Terrorism Map Businesses and organizations with investments or employees in dangerous regions may be interested in a new terrorism mapping technology from Jane's Information Group.
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| Academic Culture, Understaffing Blamed for Higher Ed IT Insecurity Academic culture and understaffing in IT departments continues to result in data security breaches throughout the higher education system, according to ComputerWorld.com. |
| NATO Establishes Cyberdefense Center NATO will establish a new cyberwarfare center in Estonia to protect its member states against cyberattacks from states and terrorists. The Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence will begin operations in August. |
| American People and Local Police Key to Homeland Security and Resilience Homeland security experts today criticized the federal government for failing to share information with state and local law enforcement as well as the public at large in its effort to protect the country from terrorism. |
| Has DHS Abandoned Resilience? In its latest hearing on national resilience yesterday, a subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee had a question for its witnesses: Has the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) abandoned the resilience-based approach for protecting U.S. critical infrastructure? "No," answered Robert B. Stephan, assistant secretary for Infrastructure Protection at DHS. |
| Jihadists May Attack European Football Championships, Swiss Police Report Chatter on jihadist Web sites indicates that radical Islamist terrorists are planning to attack Europe's football championships in Austria and Switzerland this June, Swiss police say. The Union of European Football Associations will begin the football championship games, known as Euro 2008, on June 7. Authorities fear global media attention on the championship matches has made it an attractive target for terrorists. |
| Three International Hackers Indicted for "Sniffing" Payment Card Numbers Three men were federally indicted on Monday for hacking into the electronic cash registers of a U.S. restaurant chain and stealing the credit and debit card numbers of customers. |
| White House Considers Unified Risk Management Model Amid concern about the dual challenges of quantifying and mitigating risk on a national scale, President Bush may issue a Homleand Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) on the matter, according to Joel B. Bagnal, deputy assistant to the president for homeland security. Bagnal, who has served as a White House homeland security advisor since December 2001, addressed the topic Tuesday in the keynote speech at the National Conference on Security Analysis and Risk Management, held at the Arlington, Virginia, campus of George Mason University (GMU). |
| Police Testify On Behalf of Bulletproof Vest Program Police and senators spoke out today during National Police Week on behalf of a federal program that pays up to 50 percent of the costs to shield state and local law enforcement officers with bulletproof vests. |
| TWIC Compliance Gets Extended While Foreign Workers Come Under Suspicion The Department of Homeland Security has extended the final compliance date of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) from September 25, 2008, to April 15, 2009, according to The Maritime Executive Magazine. The decision was made in collaboration with port officials and industry, the magazine reports. |