A Letter to the Trump Administration – Establish a Faith-Based Sector of...
By Andy Jabbour, Founder and Senior Advisor, Faith-Based Information Sharing and Analysis Organization As the nation begins the process of reopening and reentry, on May 22, 2020, President Trump...
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The Irony of Trump’s Side in the Shutdown – It’s Harming Homeland Security
President Trump’s obsession with building a $5.7 billion wall on America’s southern border is antithetical to the heart of effective homeland security; that is, risk-based decision making. Even as some...
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Virtual Kidnappings on the Rise – Law Enforcement Needs to Do More
Virtual kidnapping is a criminal scam and form of extortion. Those targeted are led to believe that a loved one has been kidnapped and only ransom can save them from violence or death. In this kind of...
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Legal Hack-Back – A Colossally Bad Idea
By Mark Weatherford Like Colin Clive screaming “It’s alive!” in the original 1931 Frankenstein movie, the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (H.R. 4036) continues to live. Reintroduced last month by...
View ArticleDHS Budget – Public Rhetoric vs. Budget Reality
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is someone I have not had the pleasure of meeting yet. But when that opportunity occurs, if it does, I really want to tell him how much I like what he has said...
View ArticleFEMA’s Future – Save the Grants, Partnerships and Children
As congressional hearings go, the House Homeland Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications was focused, cordial and insightful, three items you rarely expect to see in...
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The Strongest Force in Homeland Security – The Private Sector
Gen. John Kelly (USMC, ret.), the man tapped to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is about to inherit a security workforce that is more complex than probably any other on the planet. With...
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U.S. Cyberattack on Russia Would be a Mistake
By Mike Martin According to an NBC News report, the Obama administration is contemplating executing unprecedented cyber action against Russia. The White House has reportedly ordered the CIA to prepare...
View ArticleCritical Skills for the Next DHS Secretary
The legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security details the Department’s responsibilities, but it is not very prescriptive in the qualifications for the job of its Secretary. To date,...
View ArticleThe Presidential Debate – National Security Questions I Want Asked
In a matter of days, we will have the first of three scheduled presidential debates. For as unparalleled, unprecedented and unscripted as the 2016 campaign has been, nothing can change the dynamics of...
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Elections Shouldn’t Be Deemed Critical Infrastructure
By Mike Martin The recent cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has led to confusion on how to protect against potential future hacks. In...
View ArticleCybersecurity and 2016 Election Infrastructure
When we think of critical infrastructure, we tend to think about physical structures, roads, bridges, utilities and ports. The cyber age changed that perception to include invisible code, the ones and...
View ArticleIn Fight Against ISIS and AQ, What Does Success Look Like?
Something really novel happened in Washington yesterday. A number of really smart people were brought together in one room to hear, discuss and ask questions about some of the tough issues that will be...
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The National Interest is Privacy, Not Backdoors to Encryption
By Casey Lucius One of the problems with not having a coherent national security strategy is that when something comes up like the San Bernardino shootings, our national leaders grab for the nearest...
View ArticleIn FBI-Apple Fight, Law Enforcement Missing the Point
By Max Skalatsky Every week, I read and hear how the U.S. government—specifically, the FBI—is attempting to subpoena texts from Apple and why Apple must not only turn over these key pieces of evidence...
View ArticleApple Fights Court Order – Security v. Privacy Debate Continues
I was astonished to learn this morning that Apple was fighting a federal magistrate’s order in connection with the investigation of the San Bernardino shootings. I had assumed that Apple would comply...
View ArticleClinton Indictment Watch – SAP Found on Home Server
On Tuesday, several media outlets reported that Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough sent a letter to Congress indicating that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stored...
View ArticleThe Two Sides of Cybersecurity
By Dan Gerstein Cybersecurity is a two-sided proposition, requiring both defense of internal networks and the ability to operate effectively in the cyber domain. Securing government networks is...
View ArticleHacking the Cybersecurity Labor Force
National Cyber Security Awareness month has been jam-packed with conferences and panels that discuss policies to strengthen our cybersecurity workforce’s ability to pinpoint vulnerabilities. Even with...
View ArticleA Congressional Hearing ‘Do-Over’ Done Very Well
A few weeks back, I recommended that the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies have a “do-over” of a hearing where the subject was...
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