Homeland Security Outlook

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday visited Montana to tour U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations and meet with state and local officials, law-enforcement pe...

 A recent spate of airport security breaches, with airline or airport employees allegedly involved in smuggling drugs or illegal immigrants, have federal officials concerned. Federal authorities wa...

 The Department of Homeland Security is systematically reviewing thousands of pending immigration cases and moving to dismiss those filed against suspected illegal immigrants who have no serious cri...

 The Homeland Security department in Allen County hosted a conference on Wednesday to provide government and business leaders the tools they can use to maintain operations during a disaster.

 On August 6, 2010, in accordance with the requirements of the Travel Promotion Act (TPA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced an interim final rule  establishing a fee for the use of...

 As Matthew Harwood's August 5, 2010 article  in Security Management reminds us, Homeland Security has not taken seriously the threat that a high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon could fry t...

 Fusion Centers are a fairly new concept in law enforcement, and many people don't know the purpose they serve or how their local law enforcement agency should be engaging these centers. If you ask ...

 Those who read my Security Debrief posts or my Tweets will recognize (maybe with a groan) that one of my issues is the lack of action in Awareness and Education with regard to cybersecurity. It i...

By Piali De, Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Company

Remember ledgers? People with great penmanship wrote data into books of columns and rows, which were put on a shelf for retrieval when needed. After ...

By Lieutenant General (USA, Ret) Richard A. Hack, and Colonel (USA, Ret) Michael R. Gonzales

The tragic attacks of September 11, 2001, devastation caused by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina , a string of violent...

By Michel Marizco, HSO Contributor

It was the first public test for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. On Christmas Day, a suicide bomber with suspected al-Qaeda ties boarded a Detroit-bound...

By Rich Cooper

As history has shown us there is no date or holiday that is sacrosanct to terrorism. One day is as good as any other to strike and that was certainly true for the Christmas Day, Detroit-...