Site Map - Public-Private Partnerships

12/18/2007 - The Cyber Security Early Warning task force, which includes representatives from businesses, trade groups, and academia, has issued its first set of recommendations. First is a call for the creation of an Early Warning Alert Network (EWAN) that would work with existing public-private information-sharing organizations to establish "trust communities" across industry sectors that would receive critical alerts on vulnerabilities, attacks, and exploits.

12/17/2007 - The Cyber Security Early Warning task force, which includes representatives from businesses, trade groups, and academia, has issued its first set of recommendations. First is a call for the creation of an Early Warning Alert Network (EWAN) that would work with existing public-private information-sharing organizations to establish "trust communities" across industry sectors that would receive critical alerts on vulnerabilities, attacks, and exploits. The task force also envisions a National Crisis Coordination Center (NCCC), "a single physical center that pulls together public and private sector constituencies for full crisis prevention and response coordination," complete with backup power, a hot site, and a full-time staff assigned for tours of duty by members of each critical infrastructure and government sector.

12/17/2007 - In Toronto, citizens and businesses can choose whether police or private security personnel respond to alarms. Those who choose police bear the cost of false alarms.The video, developed by the Private Sector Liaison Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, also identifies the worst false-alarm offenders: municipal buildings, banks, schools, and churches.

12/17/2007 - The Cybercop Web portal allows authorized crimefighters around the world to access a database of sensitive information.

12/12/2007 - A new rule from DHS encourages industry to share data with the government. But is the protection provided real or illusory?

12/05/2007 - Find out how the Secret Service worked with multiple law enforcement groups to protect the heads of state at the G-8 Summit in Georgia.

12/04/2007 - A public-private group that provides intelligence to the financial services sector has revamped operations to adapt to new security challenges.

12/04/2007 - The approach Dallas has used for its Downtown Emergency Response Team (DERT) offers a good model for other cities.

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11/29/2007 - Changing the Guard is an examination of prison privatization in the United States and several other nations. It is a story told through four essays by writers with academic backgrounds in law, sociology, economics, and criminology. Breaking the argument into four separate contributions adds strength through diversity of opinion, but it also creates redundancy--the writers often repeat each other's material.

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11/29/2007 - Learn how the Southeastern Transportation Security Council bridges the gap between private industry and law enforcement in the fight against cargo theft

11/28/2007 - The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Emergency Management Agency now have a real-time view of monitors at three state nuclear power plants, including Three Mile Island.