The concept of homeland security is not new; since the bloody birth of the United States in 1776, Americans have been engaged in securing and defending the homeland. However, the current manifestation of the expression Homeland Security was created in the crucible of modern terrorist attacks, most notably that of September 11, 2001. As Noftsinger, Newbold, and Wheeler (2007) note, today’s idea of homeland security was created in response to the increasing terrorist threat, when it was recognized that the increased terrorist threat could not be combatted through conventional means.…
While terrorism is not a new phenomenon to the human race, the past ten years have ushered in a previously unfamiliar rise in terrorism attacks on U.S. domestic soil. This problem has posed a significant challenge to U.S. national security which both government and commercial entities have so far struggled to adequately address and prevent.…
In recent years, there has been much debate in the intelligence community relating to the balance between human intelligence and technical intelligence in order to satisfy states’ intelligence requirements. This paper addresses the argument from both sides, and suggests that there has been an over reliance on technical intelligence in recent years, leading to inadequacies in intelligence gathering.…
Terrorism is the warfare of the future. The battlefield has changed and it will take professional intelligence agencies to gather information about these unorthodox combatants. To help fight the war on terror, intelligence corporations must be present. However, some of the agencies can be combined with others to make a “super agency”. Three agencies that currently play a major role in the battle on terrorism will be the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Discussion will be given on which agencies can be combined, what the roles of the agencies will be, and the function of each in the intelligence community. Furthermore, discussion will be given to what counterterrorism and counterintelligence tools the agencies will have available to them and what policies should be put in place to help combat terrorism in the future. The tools that will be used for counterterrorism will be the use of Special Operations Forces (SOF), unmanned aerial vehicle strikes (UAV’s), and cutting off funding to the terrorist organizations. Also the use of human intelligence, open source intelligence, and signal intelligence will be covered.…
The personnel that make up this management team would need to be assessed on how well they would follow as well as deliver instructions in protecting their infrastructure. It will evaluate the effectiveness and development of the organizations emergency strategies not only on an internal basis but on the organizations safety precautions in protecting their customers and suppliers. Even if an organizations customers and suppliers were not directly hit by a terrorist attack they could still suffer extensive damage to their communications and data information as a consequent from the organization that was the target of a terrorist attack. Using the Baldridge Criteria as a benchmark to gauge their strengths and opportunities for improvement, and measurement of the overall alignment and integration of key processes” (Farm, 2004).…
Yemen that is experiencing widespread armed conflict has been designated for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson designated the country for TPS for 18 months. The designation will let the nationals of Yemen to remain and work in the U.S. TPS extension is effective from September 3, 2015 through March 3, 2015.…
As part of a series of initiatives to improve coordination and communication among all levels of government and the American public, the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) was created. This advisory system was the foundation for building a comprehensive and effective communications structure to give information regarding the risk of terrorist attacks. This system was revised at a later date and became the Nation Terrorism Advisory System.…
The internet has changed the world we live in. Emails are sent across thousand of miles in a matter of seconds. People start business with only a few clicks on a computer screen and students can access entire libraries without even leaving their homes. However there is a darker side to the internet that we are now just beginning to see. All those wonderful emails often time are really not so wonderful. The success of emails has been compromised by spam and worthless chit-chat that can eat into a person's productivity. Even worse though is the fact that our children are now being preyed upon by internet pedophiles while adults are finding that their identities can be stolent which cost them and our financial institutions milions of dollars a year. Yes, the internet has radically made our lives better, but at the same time we must see that the freedom the internet allows us must be regulated and policed.…
Throughout the history of the world there have been many important and revolutionary inventions such as the printing press, the steam engine and the automobile. All of these inventions had major impacts on the way humans lived and aided in changing or shaping new and future societies. These inventions all largely effected past generations and civilizations but with the help of new inventions, modern day technology is developing at an increasingly exponential rate. One major invention that has helped accelerate the modernization of technology is the internet. It has tremendously increased communication all over the world therefore spreading ideas, stories, and inspiration worldwide. It has also increased the amount of information made available to people all over the world. The internet has had a positive impact on our ability to communicate and spread information.…
Homeland security is a very big one since 911. Also what happen during Hurricane Katrina made homeland security looked on more. Homeland security has been propelled to the forefront.These was two incidents we felt like would never happen in our country. Homeland security is an example of the importance of preserving the delicate balance between individual rights and public safety (Baker,2015). The advent of homeland security has had a significant impact on this united direction, particularly in regard to law enforcement.Homeland security had to be sit up because before we was not focus on Homeland security, but being attacked by terrorist made us think twice (Baker,2015).…
The internet technology has become one of the most important forms of technology there is. It has come a long way from a research project funded by the American Department of Defense called ARPAnet, designed as a back-up system that could withstand a nuclear attack: if a bomb fell on part of it, the rest should keep working. One could never imagine a world without the internet, where information is just within your fingers. You can find anything from phone numbers to the scientific name of the zebra with just a few strokes on the keyboard.…
The impact cyber crimes and terrorism are having on interrupting the fourth amendment is that the government is able to search and seize without a warrant at any time. They fall back on the part of the fourth amendment that states they most have probable cause and reason to search. The government states that it feels the security of the country is in jeopardy which gives them right to an unwarranted search and seizure of those in question of terrorism or cyber crimes. The government also has the right to arrest an individual when provided with information via…
In general, Internet is an amazing success of human development, which has provided people such a large amount of benefits. Conversely, there are some obvious problems that we need to handle with. Hopefully, Internet will be more developed to fit the world’s need and reduce the dark sides.…
Internet creates virtual world. There are no demarcated boundaries between the people who utilize the web. The utility extends to information, e-banking, e-commerce, communication etc. the technology is open to hacking, pornography, gambling, identity-theft etc.…
The Internet started out as a small military experiment some 35 yearsago, the Internet is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of communication. There is a present population of about 40 million usersworld wide, and it seems to have a very promising future. The Internetis uncensored and almost impossible to monitor, it is a breeding groundfor all sorts of offensive and derogatory information. On the other hand,it is probably the biggest single source of data in the world broughthome into your personal computer. Will this form of communicationsurvive in the future, or will it simply die out as many others have in thepast? The RAND CORPORATION built the first nodes of the Internet36 years ago, and they faced the problem of keeping communicationbetween U.S. authorities active in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Thecountry needed a command-and-control network. The biggest problemwas protecting the main server, which could be knocked out by a singleatomic warhead. RAND came up with the solution in 1964. The newnetwork would have no central authority, and it would be designed tooperate in shambles. The National Physical Laboratory in Great Britainset up the first test network on these principles in 1968. Shortly afterward, the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency decidedto fund a larger, more ambitious project in the USA. The nodes of thenetwork were to be high-speed supercomputers (or what passed forsupercomputers at the time). The first was put in place during the fall of 1969. By December of the same year four nodes were installed.Dedicated high-speed transmission lines connected them. This allowedthe computers to communicate and be programmed from one of theother computers. In the year of 1971 there were 15 nodes, and by 72there were 37. This number kept increasing rapidly as the years passed.The network was also becoming more of a person-to-person way of communicating. Many military personnel began using it as a way…