http://www.gsnmagazine.com en http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/critical-infrastructure/854.html June 23, 2008 For most of a decade, the federal approach to protecting critical infrastructure was almost entirely voluntary. It is now clear that last yearâ€s legislation to implement recommendations of the 9/11 Commission â€" H.R. 1 â€" marked a philosophical turning point toward regulation. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/critical-infrastructure/809.html May 30, 2008 Itâ€s back to the drawing boards for the Federal Communications Commission, which tried and failed earlier this year to garner more than $1.33 billion in total bids for licenses to implement a nationwide public safety communications network in the 700 MHz band. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/critical-infrastructure/729.html May 30, 2008 The Federal Communications Commissions intends to ask about 25 operators of approximately 50 different submarine telecommunications cable systems to provide the Commission with information about the status of their cable systems and landing stations and any restoration plans they may have in place. More... http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/critical-infrastructure/767.html May 19, 2008 The Department of Homeland Security plans to award more than $844 million in grants this year to help secure the nationâ€s critical infrastructure. The awards are being made as part of the DHS Infrastructure Protection Activities (IPA) grant program. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/critical-infrastructure/765.html May 19, 2008 Next time you walk down the street, look at the pavement. Chances are, youâ€ll see at least one manhole cover, leading to one or more utility lines vital for modern life. And chances are, it is completely unguarded and unmonitored. Anyone could enter, at almost any time. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/critical-infrastructure/770.html May 19, 2008 One by one, large and small cities across the United States are installing lots of video cameras to watch their citizens in public spaces, connecting those cameras to monitoring centers by fiber optic cable or wireless ™mesh™ networks; thereby attempting to decrease crime. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/critical-infrastructure/750.html May 12, 2008 There has been a debate for years as to whether an Electro Magnetic Pulse, also known as EMP, could blow out the electrical circuits and computer systems at the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in rural Virginia â€" a site to which the president and top government leaders might be relocated in case of a nuclear attack â€" but it now appears that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is actively worried about such a potential EMP threat. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/critical-infrastructure/749.html May 12, 2008 A secretive agency designed to protect the nation from hackers and cyber terrorists is drawing the ire of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The National Cyber Security Center was created in February as part of the, Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), a multi-agency, multi-year plan engendered by HSPD-23 that lays out 12 steps toward securing the federal governmentâ€s cyber networks.