Site Map - Homeland Security

09/29/2011 - Matthew Harwood interviews Lt. Gen. Guy C. Swan III, CPP.  

09/29/2011 - A government program aims to usher security technology from the drawing board to the marketplace more quickly.

08/25/2011 - Security Management's Matthew Harwood interviews futurist Marc Goodman.    

08/25/2011 - By testing suspect computing devices on site, law enforcement can reduce forensic wait times and protect the chain of evidence.

08/25/2011 - More on suspicious activity reporting and the federal government's efforts to embed privacy and civil liberty controls into the process from Security Mangement associate editor, Matthew Harwood.

07/27/2011 - Security Management interviews Rocco Forté, assistant city coordinator for emergency preparedness and regulatory services for the City of Minneapolis.  

07/27/2011 - Scientists who sequence the DNA of pathogens have adopted guidelines to limit the opportunities for criminals to get access to such research.

06/30/2011 - Security Management interviews Carmen Merlo, director of the Portland Office of Emergency Management.

06/30/2011 - New technologies under development can be used to help locate firefighters in burning buildings and determine whether they are in distress.

05/27/2011 - Security Management interviews Alice D. Johnson, executive director of Utah's Salt Lake Urban Area. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

05/27/2011 - Experts warn that a lack of specialists in the field of nuclear forensics may make it difficult in the future to trace the origin of dirty bombs.

04/23/2011 - The National Building Museum and the Industry Council for the Built Environment have reported on the proceedings of a conference that addressed how planning and engineering can mitigate the effects of large-scale disasters (.pdf).

04/23/2011 - ♦ A committee of the National Research Council has offered findings on the need for vision and leadership on building resilient next-generation critical infrastructure. ♦ The former chairman of engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. reported to the British Royal Academy of Engineering on 9-11’s lessons in designing and maintaining resilient infrastructure (.pdf). ♦ The Center for National Policy, a Washington, D.C. think tank, has hosted a series of events addressing the need to establish resilience in critical infrastructure (here and here).