Disaster Recovery
Cyber Storm II kicks off: Prepping for disaster, practice makes perfect
March 10th, 2008
Sometime this evening, in the still of the night, an incident will occur in Australia. It will cause government and private security officials on three continents to scramble. A potential terrorist cyber attack will be underway.
Who will process terrorism insurance claims?
March 5th, 2008
The Department of the Treasury is thinking about the unthinkable.
To prepare itself for another terrorist attack, Treasury is seeking a capable small business that can develop and operate the management system that would process claims from insurance companies for the federal government’s share of compensation under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP) if another terrorism event occurs.
National Academy might "second-guess" the DNDO
February 26th, 2008
In accordance with instructions in the FY2008 omnibus appropriations bill, DHS is ready to hire the National Academy of Sciences to assist the department’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) in reviewing the use of Advanced Spectroscopic Portals at U.S. ports, the Nevada Test Site and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Simulated chemical releases planned for New England
February 15th, 2008
FEMA and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are planning to run several exercises in New England during the next 18 months that would simulate medium-sized accidents at chemical plants involving the release of toxic chemicals.
DHS completes testing on explosives detection device
February 13th, 2008
A field operable explosives detection device supplied by American Innovations, Inc., of Spring Valley, NY, has been tested at the DHS Transportation Security Laboratory in Atlantic City, NJ, and a final test report is now available to recognized government and military agencies.
Their own words...
January 30th, 2008
Cyber crime documentary prompts awareness and action
January 28th, 2008
It is no easy task getting busy corporate executives to sit still to watch a movie. But more than 100 leading vendors and IT specialists recently took their seats for a private advanced screening of "The New Face of Cyber Crime," a documentary produced by Fortify Software and created by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Frederic Golding.
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NRC seeks new rules for shipping radioactive materials
January 7th, 2008
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is at the beginning of a lengthy bureaucratic process to revise its regulations regarding the transportation of radioactive materials, and that’s got me thinking.
As the NRC solicits written comments from "stakeholders," and hosts a series of public meetings around the country, I wonder just how open its officials will be to the input they receive.
A bit of background might be helpful. Shortly after 9/11, the NRC and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began thinking in new ways about the transportation of radioactive materials used for medical or industrial applications. As part of this process, the NRC reviewed the chemical, physical, and radiological characteristics of each radioactive material for its attractiveness to a terrorist, according to an NRC notice in the Federal Register on January 4.
The IAEA studied all radioactive materials and published a study, Code of Conduct on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources, which identified 16 specific radioactive materials that might pose a threat and threshold quantities of those materials which could make them useful to terrorists.
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