National credentialing efforts for emergency responders have been advancing and branching out to include telecommunications specialists, utilities workers and other private-sector disaster response workers.
The Transportation Workers Identification Credential program is marred by significant vulnerabilities in its ability to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access and use, according to Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner.
A federally chartered IT advisory group approved a recommendation on Aug. 1 to request that the federal government identify and prioritize by October the key data elements to be used in a medical electronic record available to first responders.
Registered Traveler will require applicants to provide 10 fingerprints, a facial photograph and an optional iris scan, according to a technical specification submitted by the Registered Traveler Interoperability Consortium.
Nearly five years after 9/11, reports show the federal government has made limited progress on sharing terrorism information because of uncertainty about what to share, and how to do so without infringing on civil liberties.
President Bush's recent executive order to upgrade the nation's emergency warning system lays out an ambitious plan to coordinate a patchwork of federal, state and local alert systems.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee charge that the Bush administration is failing to implement the technology-related recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and falling short on other homeland security priorities.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee charge that the Bush administration is failing to implement the technology-related recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and falling short on other homeland security priorities.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee charge that the Bush administration is failing to implement the technology-related recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and falling short on other homeland security priorities.
A little-publicized credentialing system is intended to assist in identifying which responders should be allowed to enter an incident scene after a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
Raytheon Co. officials today pledged to move quickly, offer the best value and use only proven technologies if they win the contract for the $2 billion Secure Border Initiative-Network border surveillance system from the Homeland Security Department.
The federal government's final National Infrastructure Protection Plan fails to address matters of funding and concerns over protecting sensitive information, according to a new report
The Homeland Security Department would be required to set up a new IT system and database for tracking missing persons and reuniting families following major disasters under an amendment approved by the Senate last week.
The federal government should develop an "authorized use" standard to improve information-sharing in counterterrorism, according to the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
The Coast Guard is monitoring and sharing counterterrorism information at three new interagency centers and 35 new sector command centers it has set up at ports around the country.
A final implementation plan will be released this month for the federal government's new Information-Sharing Environment, John Negroponte, director of national intelligence, said in a speech Monday.
The Homeland Security Department is looking to IT companies for ideas on building a second, redundant data center to supplement the one it operates under an agreement with the Navy.
Instead of hardening all critical infrastructure, focus should be on ensuring continuity of essential systems, advises a recent report by former White House cyber czar Richard Clarke and the Century Foundation.
