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  • Analysis: Environmental regulations cause risky concentration of critical infrastructure

    It used to be the case that environmental concerns appeared to clash with economic growth and job creation; now an argument is being made that environmental concerns leading to the concentration of critical infrastructure facilities may clash with security

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  • BlackBerry as part of the U.S. critical infrastructure?

    BlackBerry, in desperate effort to ward off court injunction, claims to be an integral part of U.S. critical infrastructure

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  • Tell us something we don't know

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  • U.K. in ambitious road surveillance scheme

    All roads may lead to Rome, but all surveillance roads surely lead to England, as government launches nationwide road surveillance program

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  • U.K. government, service providers discuss data retention strictures

    U.K. pushed hard to increase amount of time phone companies should retain phone call information, but providers complain that more attention should be paid to the costs they must shoulder as a result

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  • Johns Hopkins home to fifth Homeland Security Center of Excellence

    Last month Johns Hopkins joined other academic centers to harness its considerable intellectual firepower on behalf of the nation’s security

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  • RuggedCom shows ROS v. 3, addressing critical infrastructure needs

    In the 1960s, Rober McNamara’s Whiz Kids used to ask: How Much Security Is Enough? When it comes to network security, especially networks which govern the country’s critical infrastructure, there is no such thing as enough security, and the ruggedized switches from RuggedCom would help in this regard

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  • Unanswered questions

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  • Israel shuts down chlorine storage near Ashkelon owing to terrorism threat

    In the United States it has taken years to begin introducing meaningful security measures at chemical plants; in Israel it has taken no more than half a dozen inaccurate Kassam rockets to be fired from the Gaza Strip for chlorine storage facility to be shut down

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  • Congressional report cites 33 promises DHS failed to keep

    Minority staff of House Homeland Security Committee lists 33 specific promises and pledges DHS made since 2003 and failed to meet

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  • DHS pushes cities to develop regional disaster recovery plans

    DHS insists that cities applying for urban security grants coordinate their disaster and recovery programs with neighboring cities so that they can present a regional disaster recovery plans in their application

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  • DHS invites comments on SAFECOM

    DHS invites public comments on program to coordinate public safety communications and interoperability

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  • More U.S. cities buy JMAR's BioSentry water-monitoring system

    Safety of water supply does not rank high in cities’ security planning; this is a mistake, and more and more cities are sharing this conclusion

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  • Georgia buys traffic video detection system from Iteris

    Careful monitoring of traffic helps daily commuters, and is essential in the event of disaster

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  • Bill regulating chemical plants security to be formally introduced

    Long-awaited bill to standardize security measure in chemical facilities to be introduced; government given right to close down non-complying plants

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More headlines

  • What Should the Government Do in 2023 to Fill its Cyber Workforce Shortage?
  • CISA’s Wales says industry engagement on incident reporting rule will be robust, meet expectations
  • Securing the U.S. Electricity Grid from Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity Profile for the Hybrid Satellite Networks (HSN) Cybersecurity: Draft Annotated Outline
  • $3 billion for coastal and climate resilience funding
  • DHS Awards $9.8M for Small Businesses to Develop Security Technology Prototypes
  • Flood sensors give Montgomery Co. new way to track water levels remotely
  • 100 day cybersecurity resilience plan for water and wastewater sector
  • Water, schools, among major concerns for Utah earthquake commission
  • MyShake early warning app ready for Seattle earthquake alerts
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
  • Residents of Murrieta, California, will have to subscribe for emergency services
  • Ohio’s Homeland Security funding drops sharply
  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
  • Homeland security gets involved with Indiana water conservation
  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
  • Americans favor Obama to defend against space aliens: poll
  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
  • Wickr enables encrypted, self-destructing iPhone messages
  • NASA explains Why clocks got an extra second on 30 June
  • Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
  • First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests
  • Israeli security fence architect: Why the barrier had to be built
  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
  • Turkey deploys troops, tanks to Syrian border
  • Israel fears terror attacks on Syrian border
  • Ontario’s emergency response protocols under review after Elliot Lake disaster
  • Colorado wildfires to raise insurance rates in future years
  • Colorado fires threaten IT businesses
  • Improve your disaster recovery preparedness for hurricane season
  • London 2012 business continuity plans must include protecting information from new risks

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  • Concerns About Extremists Targeting U.S. Power Stations

    Attacks on four power stations in Washington State over the weekend added to concerns of a possible nationwide campaign by far-right extremists to stir fears and spark civil conflict. Violent extremists “have developed credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020, identifying the electric grid as a particularly attractive target given its interdependency with other infrastructure sectors,” the DHS said in a January.

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