Above is a fuzzy capture of an illustration from page 7 of a GAO PowerPoint entitled, “FEMA has made limited progress in efforts to develop a system to assess national preparedness efforts.” The original can be found at http://www.gao….
The ICS-CERT has recently received several reports from multiple independent security researchers who have employed the SHODAN search engine to discover Internet facing SCADA systems using potentially insecure mechanisms for authentication and authoriz…
“As a precaution, DHS has taken a number of steps to enhance security. Some of these security measures will be visible while others will not. The public may recognize specific enhancements including heightened cargo screening and additional security at…
USA Today published a story this week regarding the threat of solar storms and Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) that highlighted an issue inherent in homeland security more broadly—how to walk the line between resilience and overreaction. The piece summar…
On Wednesday Mark Chubb offered a considered critique of the recently released Report to Congress: Perspectives on Preparedness (large PDF). In particular Mark noted, “It is not too hard to imagine myriad new federal strings being attached to …
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today traveled to Colorado Springs, Colo., and Denver to highlight the vital role of DHS’ federal, state and local government and law enforcement partners, the private sector and the Amer…
Earlier this month, the state Public Service Commission started an investigation of an Oct. 10 outage that affected FiberNet customers in West Virginia.
A computer outage delayed several Continental/United flights on Wednesday.
An information technology system failure at Norfolk Southern caused Virginia Railway Express trains on the Manassas Line to come to a halt Friday morning, Norfolk Southern officials said.
I had an interesting conversation with a new colleague today. The new public information officer in our office asked me how emergency managers settled on 72-hours as the threshold value for disaster kits. Why, she wondered, was 72-hours the magic numbe…