Category: Homeland Security

As Comiskey et al. (2022) argue, the U.S. is not ready for climate crises and proactive steps, including developing a comprehensive national climate security strategy, making policy amendments, and adding the prevention and mitigation of systemic climate change risks to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) missions, are needed (2021).
For this activity, you will create a narrated presentation consisting of 10-15 (at least one-minute narration per slide) slides summarizing climate migration, its relation to security, and its impact on the U.S.
This presentation is meant to simulate face-to-face communication of your data, recommendations, and results as if you were presenting to your colleagues in DHS.
Your narrated presentation should contain supporting visual aids, refer to resources under the climate migration, and include the following components:
– Introduction
– The concepts of climate change and climate migration
– The current/future effects of climate change and migration to the U.S.
– The relationship between climate change, migration, and conflict.
– Current policies/efforts to mitigate climate-related insecurity
– Recommendations to develop a climate security strategy
Conclusion / Wrap-Up.
Please put the speaker notes in the powerpoint and I will do the narration.

Now that you have studied both tame and wicked problems.
– Identify either a Homeland or National Security challenge that the United States is currently facing. Include a basic descriiption of the challenge and explain why you believe it is either a “tame” or “wicked” challenge.
– Provide at least two characteristics with examples of why the problem is tame or wicked.
– Identify potential solutions. (If it is a wicked problem, remember the readings about how to transform a wicked problem into a manageable tame problem? Falk Daviter provides good rationales to tame a wicked problem. Termeer and Dewulf propose another good approach for governing wicked problems, accumulating small wins!)
– Select what you think is the best solution and why.
Once you have identified a real-world tame or wicked problem being faced by the United States, write a brief, one-page summary.
Your summary must contain the previous prompts and be free of spelling and grammar mistakes.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319498610_Leadership_in_the_’Wicked’_Problem_of_Bosnia’s_civil_war_A_case_study_examining_ethical_decision_making_under_duress

Hover over the hotspots in the following graphic for probing questions to consider as you develop your Venn diagram comparing the Army War College Model and Bryson’s 10-Step Planning Model.
Compare and contrast three Decision-Making Models (one must be the Rational Decision-Making process model). While building your Venn Diagram consider the following questions:
– How does the model identify the problem?
– How does the model gather information?
– How does the model organize ideas?
– How does the model develop strategies or options?
– How does the model evaluate these strategies or options?
– How does the model assess alternative resolutions?
– How does the model evaluate the final decision or provide feedback?
With the previous questions in mind, create a Venn diagram demonstrating the similarities and differences between the Rational Decision-Making model and two other decision-making models.
Attached is the text version of the Venn diagram comparing the Army War College Model and Bryson’s 10-Step Planning Model. Also, the Link below is the actual diagram if you can open and view it.
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/926823178217455619?buttonSource=viewLimits

Now that you have completed your readings on Groupthink, please think about an experience you have had where Groupthink influenced the group’s decision. Share your experience with the class and explain how you overcame (or did not overcome) Groupthink. What could you have done differently based on the knowledge you have now about Red Teaming methods to prevent Groupthink?
Attached are the group think resource for the assignment as well as the youth link below.

For this activity, you will complete all four categories of the SWOT analysis for the organization you chose to research (ICE). Each category should have a minimum of three items. Discuss in detail the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats germane to your organizational entity.
In addition to completing the SWOT Analysis Matrix, write a short summary of your findings. Be prepared to answer the following prompts when you complete the SWOT Matrix below:
– When completing your SWOT, did you discover a genuine need for the strategic plan?
– What should be done for presenting the Organization’s Future Projection?
1. To protect and develop strengths,
2. To strengthen the weaknesses,
3. To eliminate threats,
4. To take advantage of opportunities?
Complete the SWOT Analysis Matrix attached:
The SWOT Analysis Matrix will be about ICE.

Now that you have composed your organization’s vision statement (Attached Below about ICE), you can begin to craft the organization’s mission statement. John Bryson suggested that an organizational mission clarifies an organization’s purpose. Susan Ward states, “A mission statement is a brief descriiption of a company’s fundamental purpose.” The mission statement clarifies why an organization exists, what its purpose is, and what it does. The mission statement keeps everyone focused or “on the same page.”
In this activity, you will use the SMART Goals Framework to pinpoint your organization’s goals (ICE). From there, you craft your organization’s mission statement.
Using the Smart Goal Framework, craft the organization’s proposed Mission Statement (Attached Below).
Remember, a mission statement is not a vision statement. The difference between the two is that a mission statement focuses on a company’s present state while a vision statement focuses on a company’s future.
Attached are the vision statement and SMART Goals matrix for this assignment. The organization the goals and mission statement will be about is ICE.

As organizations increasingly move toward cloud technology, a cybersecurity professional should be familiar with the effect(s) it has on security.
You have been asked by your company to explain the fundamentals of cloud computing and related security issues because your company is migrating to the cloud.
Create a presentation of no more than 10 slides that explains cloud services. Then create a video of the presentation of your slides for the company leadership. Use an online video platform such as Loom, YouTube, or Vimeo to upload your completed video.
Remember that video and audio quality are important and should be taken into consideration. Ensure your video is filmed with sufficient lighting and that the volume is adequate for viewers to hear. Intonation, expression, proper speech, and professional attire are expected.
Address the following:
Describe each type of service/model of cloud computing.
Compare and contrast: local resource requirements, local control, network requirements, and security (attacks, mitigations, overall vulnerability).
Additionally, ensure you cover the following topics in your presentation:
Virtualization platforms
Cloud services (SaaS, PaaS, DaaS, IaaS)
Service-oriented architectures
Deployment models (private, public, community, hybrid)
Security, storage, legal/privacy issues
Support your presentation with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Include a title page, presenter’s notes, and reference page.
The digital presentation should include graphics that are relevant to the content, visually appealing, and use space appropriately.

structions
First, select a newer scholarly journal article (no older than 2018) relevant to the course regarding the US national response to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or the psychological impact of an WMD attack on the population. Then conduct an article review of that article. It must be related to the course or course materials (no EOD or cyber, CBRN only). The intent is for students to do some external research away from the provided references and find an Article in the AMU/APUS Library. Students should search the library’s online databases, such as ProQuest, Ebsco, and others, to find scholarly or peer-reviewed articles.
Additionally, the review of the journal article is an evaluation of the article’s strengths, weaknesses, and validity. It is used to inform of the article’s value through your explanation, interpretation, and analysis. As you do this, ask the major questions that are central to the review process:
1. What is the purpose of this article?
2. Why is it important to investigate or examine the subject of the article?
3. How are the authors carrying out the task? Are their methods and comments appropriate and adequate to the task?
4. What do they claim to have found out? Are the findings clearly stated?
5. How does this advance knowledge in the field?
Hint: These would make really good section titles for your paper.
Your work should consist of:
Introduction (this will have a well-defined purpose statement in your intro paragraph that provides guidance to the reader about what you are going to cover in your paper)
Body (feel free to use sub-headings if necessary)
Conclusion (this wraps up the key points of your work and brings your paper to a logical conclusion)
Technical Requirements
Your paper must be at a minimum of 5 pages (the Title and Reference pages do not count towards the minimum limit).
Scholarly and credible references should be used. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content.
Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
Students will follow the current APA Style as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework.
Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources. It is highly advised to utilize books, peer-reviewed journals, articles, archived documents, etc.
All submissions will be graded using the assignment rubric.

1) In continuation of our review of the OMP incident, we will want to research the psychological aspects of the people believed to be behind the attack. The groups dubbed X1 and X2 are believed to be behind the attack, you can read more about it in CSO website. You will want to research the following individuals, Yu Pingan, and Chinese state backed hacking groups. Using a combination of theoretical conclusions that can be drawn from the attack as well as information available online, does your psych profile match up with any of the individuals mentioned?
The assignment must be a minimum of 5-full pages in length with a minimum of 3-outside sources. Please be sure to follow APA guidelines for citing and referencing source

Create an appendix providing a 50- to 100-word summary for each of the following topics for your Business Continuity Plan.
Defense in depth
Air gap
DMZs
Proxy servers
Composition and security
Cascading/Segmentation
Emergent properties
Dependencies
TCB subsets
Transport layer security
BGP
OSPF
MPLS
Configuration management
DHCP
VPN
VLAN
SIEM