Category: Homeland Security

1) We have started the process to extradite the people responsible for the OPM incident. We need to cross all of our Ts and dot all of our Is. So, you need to use the information from your readings this week to put together the key facts of the key, search warrants should be discussed, evidence collected etc. In essence, this is a continuation of your Week 2, 3, and 4 work, so I am looking for an executive summary of the information we can submit to the proper authorities to start the process. We are going to have to convince all parties involved that the suspects are not being railroaded and all proper procedures have been followed.
2) In addition, while you are working through this, does Rule 41, have any effect on the investigation, i.e. will it help or hinder our investigation?

This is a capstone project. It is a two-month class and the four chapters will be due at different point in the week. I will be selecting the same writer to compete all four chapters and a PowerPoint presentation (in separate orders of course). I will attach the abstract and a few other documents that may help you.
So in total, of the four chapters, there should be about 52 pages. I hope this all makes sense.

To help manage and operate an ongoing security program in an organization, the information security team must adopt a security framework that serves as a guide for the development and implementation of the security program.
Use the company from your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) – Phase 1, developed in CYB-515. In a 750- to 1,000-word summary, address the following:
Provide a basic descriiption of the company which includes:
Mission statement
Web applications
Servers
Departments
Routers and switches
Remote access
Wireless communication
Firewalls
Demilitarized zone (DMZ)
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a list of guidelines and practices designed to help organizations better manage their security programs. It rests on various industry best practices and standards like ISO 27001 and the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT) 5 (refer to the topic Resources to learn more about these standards). This framework discusses critical security controls that can be tailored and customized to your organization’s unique needs. Your task as a part of the security team in your organization is to prepare and present a report to upper management that discusses the following steps:
Describe how you would introduce the NIST CSF critical security activities into your organization.
Determine current/recent risks or dominant categories of threats to information security.
Develop system-specific plans for the protection of intellectual property.
Apply the security model to information security management to protect the organization from being compromised by unauthorized users.
Determine appropriate implementation of the management of access control mechanisms that would apply to ensure information is protected against unauthorized users.
Outline and explain the roles of the following personnel in the planning and managing of this security plan by examining C-level functions that impact cybersecurity:
– Board of Directors
– Senior Management
– Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
– IT Management (CIO, IT Director, etc.)
– Functional Area Management
– Information Security Personnel
– End Users

Capstone Projects must address practical issues in public administration and must do so in a rigorous fashion. Although variation is permitted, these Projects commonly take one of these four forms:
Analysis of a security policy question with recommendations
Analysis of a security related law issue with administrative guidance and recommendations
Descriiption and analysis of a security management strategy, approach, or trend, with recommendations
Case study of an organizational issue with lessons learned and recommendations

Please submit a 300 word (or less) abstract of your thesis topic in Blackboard before Saturday of Week One.
Identifying the project topic early is critical to successfully completing your project. This will help let you work with your instructor to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed study. The proposal should include the following:
An overview of the problem and its significance
A clear statement of the study’s purpose and methods so that it is obvious to the reader that the methods used will able to accomplish the intended purpose. (For most projects this will be a meta-analysis of the related literature and authoritative resources.)
Some background and literature demonstrating your understanding of the problem and its related issues.

On July 1, 2020, the U.S. Army Mad Scientist Initiative, Georgetown University, Center for Security Studies, and the Center for Advanced Red Teaming (CART), University at Albany, State University of New York, executed a realistic wargaming exercise that highlighted a natural disaster in the Philippines in 2027. The event explored the challenges, considerations, and opportunities that government and military leaders need to be cognizant of in their decision making in an environment in which information has been weaponized by the adversaries.
In this activity, we will focus on the DIME and roles of responsible agencies in national crisis management.
Watch the first 18 minutes of the following assigned video of an interagency virtual wargame and answer the following questions accordingly:

Q1: Which element(s) of national power do each participant represent (if more than one, specify the most prominent)?
Q2: For each element of DIME, discuss the possible/potential outcomes in case of deficiency/inadequacy/malfunctioning of that respective element?
Q3: Specify the toolkit alternatives (ie. negotiations for D, cyber intelligence for I, peacekeeping operations for M, financial aid for E, etc.) of each element of DIME in this particular crisis?
Submit your short essay in a word processing document. Using the current APA Style, your essay should be double-spaced with a minimum of 300-500 words (excluding the title and reference pages). Support your conclusions with valid research and sources.

For this assignment, you will select one G20 country (except the U.S.) to apply DIME. Refer to the link and powerpoint below:
https://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/organisations/g20#:~:text=The%20members%20of%20the%20G20,States%2C%20and%20the%20European%20Union.
Then, analyze the DIME framework for your selected country. Consider what makes this country strong or sensitive based on each instrument. Provide a short essay that includes a rationale for each national power instrument.
Submit your short essay in a word processing document. Using the current APA Style, your essay should be double-spaced with a minimum of 300-500 words (excluding the title and reference pages). Support your conclusions with valid research and sources.

Review the following resources and write a reflection about public safety and police budgeting.
https://voiceofsandiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20-21_analysis_of_the_police_departments_fy_2021_budget_complete_rpt.pdf
https://icma.org/articles/pm-magazine/rethinking-police-and-public-safety-budgeting

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/12/upshot/cities-grew-safer-police-budgets-kept-growing.html
For the discussion:
– Reflect on your main takeaways for each source.
– Review public safety roles of police departments in the sources and take a stance on budgeting for police departments. Consider the relationship between public safety and law enforcement and share your thoughts on the budgeting issues of police departments.

COVID-19 created economic crises for state and local governments. Policymakers and analysts are working hard on evaluating economic analysis and balancing budgets. Refer to readings on economic analysis and review the following two resources.
(Resources Below)
Then, reply to the following questions;
– List elements of economic analysis used in The National Association of Counties (NACo) report.
– What type of economic analysis may have been used in NACo’s report? (Provide rationales from the text for your answer).
– Pew research recommends some tools to determine whether programs and services are effective. What do you think about using these tools in economic analysis? How can they contribute to economic analysis?
Submit your short essay in a word processing document. Using the current APA Style, your essay should be double-spaced with a minimum of 300-500 words (excluding the title and reference pages). Support your conclusions with valid research and sources. Be sure to proofread your assignment as it must be free of spelling errors, grammatically sound, and provide references for any sources.
Resources:
https://www.naco.org/sites/default/files/documents/NACo_COVID-19_Fiscal_Impact_Analysis_1.pdf
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2020/09/how-public-officials-can-use-data-and-evidence-to-make-strategic-budget-cuts

For this assignment, you will write a research paper addressing the following issues:
Describe the differences between homegrown or domestic extremism and terrorism and provide your own definition of each. Make sure to specify the differences between HVEs and DVEs and how extremists differ from terrorists.
Compare and contrast at least two different radicalization models. Highlight any key similarities and differences.
Choose either a purely domestic extremist group or a foreign terrorist organization and briefly describe the main inspiration (the grievance or cause). You can pick any extremist or terrorist group you like to describe the ideology or what cause drives them.
This Midterm Assignment addresses the following course objectives:
CO-1: Describe the psychological factors of terrorism as well as the ideologies that drive homegrown violent extremism.
CO-2: Compare and contrast the different models and framework for the radicalization process.
Technical Requirements
Your paper must be at a minimum of 4-6 pages (the Title and Reference pages do not count towards the minimum limit).
– Written according to the APA 7th edition style and format (parenthetical in-text citation formats only; not end notes or footnotes);
– Use Times New Roman 12 point font
– 1 inch margins on all sides with no paragraph indentation other than the first line by .5 inches
– Double space all text (no extra lines or spaces after a paragraph or section headings and no added font sizes or lines either)
– Make sure your paper content meets the minimum acceptable length of 4 FULL pages of text, not including the Title or Reference pages. Also do not exceed the maximum page length of 6 pages of your main body in your paper as “more is not better” in academic writing.
– The HLSS Assignment Rubric embedded within the assignment will be used to evaluate this paper.
Academic Requirements:
– Make sure you read the instructions carefully and that you focus your paper on answering the assigned questions. This assignment is a research paper, not an opinion paper, so you need to use scholarly sources to support your thesis (see this library article How do I write a good thesis statement). Use formal academic writing and do not use the first person such as ‘I’ or ‘my’; see this site on academic writing style (scholarly voice). Make sure you use APA style 7th edition in-text parenthetical citations at the end of every sentence where you are quoting another’s ideas (or any information) that is not your own thoughts and words, like this (Bergen, 2015, para. 14). Citations are required for paraphrases as well, but not the page or paragraph number in that case. I highly recommend you use the APUS writing guide which can be found in the university library or at this link: APUS Research Writing and Style Guide. You are welcome to use supplementary sources to compliment the assigned readings based upon your research, but make sure you use only scholarly and credible sources (do not use open websites and you never want to use wikipedia for a college level paper). Also, dictionaries and encyclopedias as well as general news sites (like CNN) are NOT appropriate for college level research papers. Another example of what NOT to use are disreputable sites such as NSA.Gov1.info — not only is it not the NSA webpage, the site loaded with bogus information and if you scroll down to the bottom it says “This is a parody of nsa.gov and has not been approved, endorsed, or authorized by the National Security Agency or by any other U.S. Government agency.” Also, do not cite the weekly lessons as those are only basic information to start off the topic with. You need to use mainly scholarly and reputable academic books and journal articles.
– Ensure you employ a respectable number of credible resources used and cited in the paper as in-text citations and include them on the reference page. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content (so a minimum of 2 new scholarly sources per page in a research paper is acceptable for this assignment). Use those academic and credible sources provided to you throughout the course, as well as other scholarly material obtained from conducting your own research. Freely utilize appropriate and reputable academic sources, summarize in your own words and cite accordingly. You are free to use material from your own forum posts from this course in your paper, and you do not have to cite yourself if you do so. However, do not cite the lessons in your paper as this is only basic information and not meant to be cited in a research paper.
– The paper must be free of typographical, spelling and grammatical errors (make sure to proof read before submission)
– Finally, be mindful of excessive direct quotes as the paper should not contain just a string of quotations from sources. Make sure you comply with all academic integrity standards expected by APUS and as slide 14 of the APUS Academic Integrity presentation posted in course syllabus (and the week 1 introduction forum) states “Quotes cannot make up more than 10% of the text of your assignment.” So paraphrase where you can and provide your own analysis and synthesis of your research (direct quotes only when necessary to support your thesis). Turnitin plagiarism checking software will be used on all papers (automatically).

The reasons why someone picks up a gun or throws a bomb are inherently idiosyncratic and highly personal. But what we can say in general is they’re born of frustration and grievance, a sense of dishonor, religious piety, or the desire for systematic socioeconomic change (Hoffman, 2006).
Respond to the following questions:
– Why is terrorism difficult to define? Elaborate on this idea.
– How do people radicalize or become terrorists?
– Explain the current ideological threats to the United States.
– Identify the methods used to get ideologies counter to democracy and capitalism into the United States.
– Identify the methods U.S. homeland security and law enforcement personnel are using to secure the country against these ideologies.