Category: Homeland Security

In forecasting over the next five years, what do you perceive as being the single greatest threat to the nation’s homeland security posture? Explain the reasoning for your selection. How well do the current National Security Strategy and DHS Strategic Plan address this threat?

Offer an explanation regarding what continuity planning is and its primary benefits related to homeland security. Also, what are the primary components of such planning initiatives and compare and contrast how these efforts are carried out by the public and private sectors as members of the whole community.

Offer an explanation regarding what continuity planning is and its primary benefits related to homeland security. Also, what are the primary components of such planning initiatives and compare and contrast how these efforts are carried out by the public and private sectors as members of the whole community.

As noted in your assigned reading Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, there are two interrelated variables associated with the Pendulum of Convergence (p. 26). Share insight as to how these variables (increased efficiency and situational awareness, changes in technology) influence needed critical infrastructure protection from the threat of cyberterrorism on a National level. Secondly, how do these efforts directly impact homeland security and related missions?

As it relates to current strategic challenges facing our Nation, attention has been directed towards specific areas of risk as noted in this week’s assigned readings (DHS strategic plan: Fiscal years 2020-2024, Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community, National Security Strategy 2022). Specific to these noted challenges, select a specific one and convey the manner in which certain members of the whole community can aid in impacting it in an effective manner.

Explain the concept of the “whole community” and impact it has upon accomplishment of the National Preparedness Goal. Concerning this community, offer an example of a specific resource found within it and the manner in which it can make a defined impact upon collective homeland security capabilities

Compose an outline with complete headers and brief 1-sentence paragraphs on the elements of a security system design
Submit for my review and approval. The outline should be complete with all headers and subheaders planned to be used for the final project.

Instructions
Continuing Bobsville’s(https://myclassroom.apus.edu/shared/commonfolder/security-and-global-studies-common/EDMG/Media/Bobsville_Description.html
non-structural mitigation efforts, create a Public Service Announcement campaign to educate residents on how to prepare for tornado season.
Address the following elements:
Household Mitigation Activities and Preparedness Supplies FEMA recommends
What you need to do at different phases of a tornado (Watch, Warning)
The need to develop a Plan to Sustain Yourself after a Tornado
Create your message as a slide presentation with speaking notes that could be used to give a 5-7 minute speech. Cite several sources using proper APA style. This will be 50% of the grade for the Assignment.
Then, create a trifold brochure (using both sides of the trifold page) to be distributed with the same information. Cite your sources, again using proper APA style. This will be 30% of the grade for the Assignment. (When you open up a “New” file in MS-Word, you will be offered templates, of which at least 1 – “Education Brochure” – is a trifold brochure; I have attached a generic trifold to this assignment below – you can change this generic trifold as you want if you choose to use it).
Finally, create 2 minutes of audio segments that convey the same information (your submittal may be combinations of 30-second segments, 1-minute segments, or one 2-minute spot). This will be 20% of the grade for the Assignment. The audio can be in any format you wish that is playable on a standard computer audio player; there is also a way to embed audio into powerpoint. Note that the audio should be recorded from the vantage point that you are actually recording a Public Service Announcement for the town; the audio should not just be you reading from your slides!
As always, for the written portions of the assignment, writing and formatting counts. In the audio portions of the assignment, the clarity and smoothness of delivery will be factored into the final grade.
Obviously you will need to submit multiple files for this Assignment (at least 2 if you record the audio through powerpoint, more if you break the 2 minutes of audio into multiple PSA’s). This will consist of one file containing the slide presentation, one file containing the trifold, and as many files as you need to create for the audio PSA part of the Assignment.

*Please make sure to put an introduction and conclusion*
In the “Benchmark – Impact Analysis Part 1: Information Acquisition” assignment, you wrote a compliance report to the CIO from a legal standpoint. In this part of the impact analysis, you will gauge and evaluate your chosen organization’s current state of security and protection protocols and mechanisms.
Write a 1100 to 1,500-word report that will be reviewed by the CIO and System Security Authority (SSA), addressing the following:
Identify gaps when security measures fail, challenges, and opportunities for improvement by conducting a thorough audit.
Examine concepts of privacy and the effects the internet has on privacy.
Identify the industry-specific cyber laws in relation to inquiries and incidents to obtain data and evidence.
Assess the critical information infrastructure and determine the configuration of physical assets, logical controls, data storage and encryption, firewalls, servers, routers, switches, hubs, and so forth to be compliant.
Identify at least ten key auditable elements that would help determine the current state of the organization’s cybersecurity posture. Explain the relevance of each element to the security and protection protocols and mechanisms.
Indicate the legal elements and liability (costs) that the industry may encounter for noncompliance.
Note: Retain a copy of this assignment for the Business Continuity Plan, which will be finalized and submitted in either CYB-690 or ITT-660, depending on your major.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

*Please make sure to put an introduction and conclusion*
In the “Benchmark – Impact Analysis Part 1: Information Acquisition” assignment, you wrote a compliance report to the CIO from a legal standpoint. In this part of the impact analysis, you will gauge and evaluate your chosen organization’s current state of security and protection protocols and mechanisms.
Write a 1100 to 1,500-word report that will be reviewed by the CIO and System Security Authority (SSA), addressing the following:
Identify gaps when security measures fail, challenges, and opportunities for improvement by conducting a thorough audit.
Examine concepts of privacy and the effects the internet has on privacy.
Identify the industry-specific cyber laws in relation to inquiries and incidents to obtain data and evidence.
Assess the critical information infrastructure and determine the configuration of physical assets, logical controls, data storage and encryption, firewalls, servers, routers, switches, hubs, and so forth to be compliant.
Identify at least ten key auditable elements that would help determine the current state of the organization’s cybersecurity posture. Explain the relevance of each element to the security and protection protocols and mechanisms.
Indicate the legal elements and liability (costs) that the industry may encounter for noncompliance.
Note: Retain a copy of this assignment for the Business Continuity Plan, which will be finalized and submitted in either CYB-690 or ITT-660, depending on your major.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.