Infrastructure Protection Utilities such as water, natural gas, and electricity are considered lifelines for the United States and its economy. Are they vulnerable to terrorist attacks or natural disasters? How can they be protected and secured? I Continue Reading...
This creates a platform for further threat. It does not seem that this is receiving a large amount of attention. Physical Protection of Infrastructure 1. Priority: Planning and resource allocation: An action item for this priority is to help priva Continue Reading...
S. To cope with any disaster or unforeseeable eventual attack on the critical infrastructure, to avoid the 9/11 mayhem and lack of organization. Respond; where disaster responsiveness and action at the time of the attack and shortly after is looked Continue Reading...
NIPP (National Infrastructure Protection Plan) The NIPP was drafted in the year 2006 by the DHS (Department of Homeland Security). The Plan was part of Presidential Directive 7 for Homeland Security and it was developed to boost security, and resilie Continue Reading...
Critical Infrastructure Protection Nowadays, computers have become very ubiquitous in the American society. Computers and related technologies are used at every level of government in the United States. Computer technologies are also used by all sort Continue Reading...
Infrastructure Vulnerability and Protection The efficient operation of any city in the world depends on the level of the infrastructure that is available, indeed even the far removed areas from the city can only be categorized as accessible and hab Continue Reading...
However, as the technology continues to evolve along multiple fronts, the prospect of connecting and integrating various systems and functions in a manner that is effective and seamless becomes that much more important. Moreover, that integration mu Continue Reading...
Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources NIPP (National Infrastructure Protection Plan) offers the necessary structure for coordination, synchronization and integration of activities originating from different pertinent statutes, presidential direct Continue Reading...
Protecting the Infrastructure It is important to ensure that infrastructure is resilient, secure, and are able to survive and swiftly recuperate from different occurrences, which ranges from the minor accidents to the very damaging events, such as H Continue Reading...
Synopsis Because the majority of critical infrastructure components in the United States are privately owned, compliance with Department of Homeland Security risk assessment methods remains voluntary. Risk assessments of critical infrastructure focus Continue Reading...
The main advantage of the convention is that they provide an opportunity for candidates to define themselves in a positive way and for the party to heal itself after a decisive nomination battle. 2. The electoral college is the means by which presi Continue Reading...
What could not be predicted was that the city's infrastructure would so miserably fail the people of New Orleans. As images of looting and stranded citizens filled the airways, taken from news helicopters, the city's police force had virtually aban Continue Reading...
Virtual Security Issues Many of the challenges in managing a virtualization security upgrade project revolves around the communication between members of an organization. The means or tools that communication efforts are based upon make no differenc Continue Reading...
Infrastructure is effectively what makes a nation run. It encompasses the people, places, and things necessary to deliver critical services and goods. The US Department of Homeland Security often abbreviates critical infrastructure as CIKR (Critical Continue Reading...
Essentially, the most successful it security systems will rely on a fragmented structure; they may look to third-party or other external local hosting service providers for data that is not as crucial to keep secret. Thus, enterprises must plan for Continue Reading...
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The health of a nation's population is the most important sector in the building of the nation's economy (Kovne, Knickman & Jonas, 2011). A sick nation cannot effectively produce anything substantial t Continue Reading...
The author also specifically mentions California's increased need in terms of its high crime rate. High crime rates require an increase of police and corrections, and therefore higher revenues to pay for these. Low fiscal needs are generally exhibit Continue Reading...
Public Infrastructure Asset Management: Asset management has emerged as a valuable approach in the public infrastructure sector since it helps in achieving more value by using fewer resources. Public agencies are increasingly faced with the need to Continue Reading...
(Vander Ploeg, 2003) Key findings stated in the report of Vander Ploeg include the following: Unlike the overall indications of municipal infrastructure needs, which identify water and wastewater infrastructure as having the greatest investment ne Continue Reading...
The Act authorizes the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to contract out with private health insurers to offer at a minimum of two multi-state qualified health plans (to include at least one non-profit) to provide individual or small group cover Continue Reading...
It is carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, acting through the Russian Federation Department of Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance (DSES). DSES is responsible for a wide range of areas of public health, including radiation Continue Reading...
A system possesses authenticity when the information retrieved is what is expected by the user -- and that the user is correctly identified and cannot conceal his or her identity. Methods to ensure authenticity include having user names and secure Continue Reading...
Also, the Inspector General's Act Amendments of 1998 require that the EPA provide a report to Congress "twice a year and that the OIG reports to Congress annually on the status of audits and... corrective actions" ("U.S. Environmental," 2006, Intern Continue Reading...
Lifecycle Management Information protection and its management has become the most vital task encountered by IT organizations as information's value to the business can vary depending on the data type and its present stage of its lifespan. The impo Continue Reading...
Private Security and Homeland Defense Most of the critical infrastructure in the United States is regulated by the public sector, but owned by the private sector. As a result, protection of U.S. critical infrastructure is a major challenge because of Continue Reading...
Protection Discipline The art and science of protection has evolved and transformed over the past decades where new levels of its requirements are in high demand. This structural shift in the needs for protection have also created the environment w Continue Reading...
Published by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003, authored by President George W. Bush, The National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets is the first document of its kind. After September 11 a Continue Reading...
Port Security The CBP (Customs and Border Protection) is a unit in the homeland security department and is the agency responsible for regulating, monitoring and facilitating flow of products at the points of entry. CBP policy formulation is done is s Continue Reading...
Technology Controlling water infrastructure Much contemporary research and literature over the need for water include recognition of ethical issues for example water like a public good assert Gleick (2004) and Tipping et al. (2005). Hence, overall Continue Reading...
Security of the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure Many of the elements of the nation’s critical infrastructure are highly vulnerable to attacks due to remoteness (such as in the case of dams or water treatment facilities), size (such as in Continue Reading...
Secured real time protocol (SRTP) is also being identified to enhance the security parameter of WAN and LAN network elements. "SRTP provides protection with encryption keys for wired and wireless networks including bandwidth limited channels." (Guil Continue Reading...
Watershed Management Evaluating Strategies for Watershed Protection and Management The world's watersheds are among the most valuable resources that we have on planet earth. Human beings cannot survive without water. Therefore, managing our watersh Continue Reading...
Healthcare Infrastructure JCAHO: The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations -JCAHO is among the leading health-care benchmarks setting and accrediting bodies in the world today. To provide for continuous improvement to the sa Continue Reading...
protect the privacy of the individual via EU Directive for Protection of Personal Data The internet revolutionized the human life as we know it. It established a culture of liberty aided by not just ingenuousness but also standardized protocols. Th Continue Reading...
PPACA on Nursing Practice: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a legislation that was enacted in March 2010 as part of meaningful and comprehensive reform for America's healthcare system. Upon enactment, the legislation has had signif Continue Reading...
Congressperson The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has become a contentious political issue, which I am sure your office is well aware of. As a future health care administrator and as an American citizen in your constituency, I w Continue Reading...
Private Security and Homeland Defense Questions 2 and 3 Question 2: The Intelligence Community is comprised of 17 agencies. These agencies work with Federal, State, Local, Tribal and Territorial partners to protect the homeland. Four of these agencie Continue Reading...
