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By Dean C. Alexander
9/3/2010
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This article addresses the complex and evolving nature of offline and online extremist and terrorist radicalization and recruitment. Crafting solutions that will reduce the prevalence of extremists’ and terrorists’ activities globally requires better appreciation of how such individuals are brought into the folds of radical individuals and groups. With that understanding, methods to lessen the occurrence and potency of extremists’ and terrorists’ radicalization and recruitment can be crafted and adopted.
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By Rose McDermott
7/20/2010
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The novel challenges posed by the requirements of homeland security in the new age of terror present unique problems for academic scholarship as well as for infrastructure development and policy planning. In order to respond to this unique set of threats, academic scholarship should develop an integrative, interdisciplinary, problem-focused research program. This kind of approach seems positioned best to react in a timely and appropriate fashion to the particularly political and psychological problems posed by terrorist activity.
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By Daniel P. Aldrich
7/2/2010
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Disasters remain among the most critical events that impact residents and their neighborhoods; they have killed far more individuals than terrorism. Unfortunately, disaster recovery programs run by the United States and foreign governments have not been updated to reflect a new understanding of the essential nature of social capital and networks. I call for a reorientation of disaster preparedness and recovery programs at all levels away from the standard fixes focused on physical infrastructure toward ones targeting social infrastructure. The reservoirs of social capital and the trust (or lack thereof) between citizens in disaster-affected communities can help us understand why some neighborhoods in cities such as Kobe, Japan; Tamil Nadu, India; and New Orleans displayed resilience while others stagnated. Social capital—the engine for recovery—can be deepened both through local initiatives and interventions from foreign agencies.
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By Kris Teutsch
5/26/2010
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Today, we face the nearly constant challenge of preventing, preparing, responding, and recovering in an all-hazards threat environment. To this end, secure and trusted information gathering, assessment, and sharing are critical across all levels of government and the private sector in order to protect our homeland and counter potential threats. As national security leaders work to achieve secure transparency and interoperability, there are countless approaches that can be taken. However, this article will discuss only a few of the broader IT considerations that can be implemented. Our national security community must find ways to address the growing cyber-threats created from adversaries both old and new, implement strategies to maintain continuity during times of crisis, and find solutions to modernize our nation’s aging enterprise systems. No matter how daunting the task is, we need to create secure, transparent, and interoperable systems.
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By Steven Oluic
5/24/2010
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This article investigates the U.S. Bosnian (Bošniak) and Albanian Muslim diaspora and immigrant communities’ links to radical Islamic ideology, terror groups, and organized crime and explores their settlement patterns and cultural imprints. Through a combination of open-source literature and web-based document reviews, fieldwork, and interviews in the diaspora communities, the information presented here is a first step in producing a more thorough and comprehensive understanding of two diaspora communities and members thereof that may pose a security threat to the United States.
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By John L. Clarke
4/19/2010
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Clarke examines the range of domestic tasks to which military forces in many European countries have been assigned and to develop some observations as to the trends in these operations and the impacts they may have on the armed forces themselves and their public image. There is reason for concern that national authorities have come to perhaps rely excessively on military forces to carry out domestic tasks and that the armed forces themselves have become so entwined in these tasks that they may be less able to take on conventional military missions. Coupled with the increased employment of European military forces for peace support operations, these trends may result in a significant degradation of combat capability for homeland defense missions.
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By Amy Clymer and Heather Rose
3/24/2010
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Volunteer firefighter John O'Neill created the Safety Train to give first responders hands-on training in hazmat incidents. Now his foundation sponsors five trains that travel the country providing free hazmat training.
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By Martin Shubik and Aaron Zelinsky
1/26/2010
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Given the vast scope of vulnerable network systems, future attacks are highly likely. To minimize the costs inflicted by terrorist attacks, governments should focus more resources on post-attack recovery regimes. Shubik and Zelinsky suggest a framework for analyzing the vulnerable network resources in the United States with an eye toward recovery. They conclude by proposing three central goals that are currently underemphasized in U.S. policy: detection of attacks in real time, effective public relations during and after attacks, and emphasis on post-attack recovery. In this context, they examine three vulnerable network systems: the public highways, the water system, and the power grid.
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By Nary Subramanian
12/31/2009
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Oil pipeline supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems monitor and help control pipes transporting both crude and refined petroleum products. Typical SCADA systems employ a client-server architecture where data collected by clients are collected and stored centrally at the server. However, this has several vulnerabilities, including excessive reliance on the central server, links between the clients and servers providing points for illegal access, and often porous authentication mechanisms. At the business level, the client-server architecture fails to satisfy security concerns even more: business continuity depends critically on the central master, and adaptability of the system to match business changes is suspect. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) helps to improve security of SCADA systems by providing much better adaptation to business-level security concerns, especially by incorporating Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS). In this article Subramanian describes an SOA-based architecture for an oil pipeline SCADA system that employs BPEL4WS for providing improved security compared to traditional architectures. An SOA-based SCADA divides the entire length of the pipeline system into zones; services offered within a zone are controlled by the zone master, and zone masters periodically update the group master, which is a role assigned dynamically to one of the zone masters based on business considerations. The system is validated by developing an SOA-based system using NetBeans that implements the zone and group masters as BPEL4WS services.
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By C. W. Swonger
12/4/2009
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C. W. Swonger introduces the compelling requirements for the information architecture of a highly reliable surveillance system, suggesting a structure for the hierarchy of descriptors of the visually observable form of human figures in an intelligent automated visual surveillance system. He describes the processing functions performed on such information in a decision system driven by a relational database and reviews the requirements for an economically and operationally beneficial security system for both domestic and international and military scenarios in the context of this system architecture. He also discusses the value of a distributed architecture and a client-server information-handling model for ensuring system application flexibility.
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