David Fletcher: Homeland SecurityNews, information, and reports related to homeland security at state, local and national levelsDHS Enterprise Architecture- August 28, 2003 A new GAO report on homeland security is out. The report, "Efforts to Improve Information Sharing Need to Be Strengthened", makes the basic recommendation that the Department of Homeland Security involve other federal agencies, as well as state and local government in the process of developing its enterprise architecture model. I am a little curious why NASCIO is having a panel discussion at its upcoming meeting (Sep. 7-10) without including a representative from DHS. That's...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/categories/homelandSecurity/2003/08/28.html#a872 Infragard meeting scheduled for September- August 27, 2003 The third quarter meeting of the InfraGard of the Wasatch has been scheduled for 91703 at 12 pm. This meeting is being sponsored by Computer Associates. The speaker will be Brian Grayek, Technology Strategist to the Office of the CTO, Computer Associates. Those planning to attend should RSVP to Cheney Eng-Tow via e-mail as soon as possible. The meeting will be held at the Parks Department Building located at 1965 West 500 South, Salt Lake City, UT. If there are.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/categories/homelandSecurity/2003/08/27.html#a869 NGA News- August 19, 2003 The Washington Post posted this video of Tom Ridge's comments on the homeland security alert system to the NGA. Governor Leavitt's update on the streamlined sales tax project was received favorably. According to the Post, "Governor Leavitt and Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) said the governors will support an extension of the moratorium on taxing Internet access but oppose any effort to extend the moratorium to bundled services that combine telephone and Internet...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/categories/homelandSecurity/2003/08/19.html#a857 Western CIO Forum, Emergency Management, Etc.- August 15, 2003 Major power failures and another aggressive worm. I haven't had time to say much about recent events, but they have already sparked a review of a number of processes. The Blaster virus impacted several Utah agencies, although the process of recovery was pretty well coordinated and our people acted pretty quickly to restrict damage. Most agencies had taken precautions in advance and were ready for the attack. The initial post-mortem indicates that about 1,400 machines...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/categories/homelandSecurity/2003/08/15.html#a848 Terrorist Databases Online- August 8, 2003 RAND has been working with the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism to put several databases online: Terrorism Chronology Terrorism Incident MIPT Indictment (coming soon) This is a very interesting resource. As far as chronology, terrorists generally like to maximize the impact of their actions, so they pay careful attention to dates and anniversaries. The database identifies 845 terrorist incidents in Spain from 1997 to the present, which is...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/categories/homelandSecurity/2003/08/08.html#a835 |