Phase 5 INDIVIDUAL PROJECT Kenneth Vaughn Colorado Technical University CJUS254-1404-01: Introduction to Homeland Security Professor Sinan Khan November 10‚ 2014 The Department of Homeland Security as a whole is responsible for securing our nation and ensuring the safety of all the citizens that make the United States its home. This mission has become more important since the September 2011 attacks that brought this nation into a devastating period. It was after these attacks that
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2013 Keeping the Faith Is there a certain date that has forever impacted your life and you will never forget? For me‚ that date is August 29‚ 2005 (the dreadful day Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States and mainly the city of New Orleans). What was once thought of a few days before as a non-threatening storm would forever change the lives of hundreds of thousands of people forever. My grandma‚ being one of those people. Through the struggle she
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National Security Strategy As much as the world is being progressed security will always play one of the most important roles as long as the states exist and thus the central responsibility of the nation state is its own survival. Every state has to deal with different issues in this world and the hardest thing is how to deal with them. America which is a very powerful state has to take care of its national security and its citizens by different strategies that are shown in national security strategy
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Homeland Security Integrative Project Leone‚ Tom-James June 11‚ 2013 Abstract Having well-developed protocols on issues of security‚ as well as utilizing such well-developed protocols as part of a strategy in attending to security issues‚ and periodically reviewing such utilized security protocols as time passes-by in order to increase efficiency is the most enduring way to keep enriching the practices of ‚ and in strengthening US homeland security. Due to lack of a single security
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Homeland Security Advisory System Vs National Terrorism Advisory System In an effort to maintain the security of our nation‚ the Department of Homeland Security has developed a system called the National Terrorism Advisory System that releases security threat updates that can be easily accessible to other departments‚ private organizations‚ and even the public. However‚ before the National Terrorism Advisory System‚ or NTAS‚ there was the Homeland Security Advisory System‚ or HSAS‚ which
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research I have been able to find out what it was like for the people of New Orleans when it was hit by a strong hurricane‚ called Katrina. The hurricane lasted 7 days‚ in between the dates of the 23rd of august and the 30th of august‚ 2005. There were an estimated value of 1833 causalities between those dates and wind pressures managed to hit up to 280 km/h‚ making it a category five hurricane‚ the highest you can go. The official city‚ state and the federal plan was basically a RLH plan‚ which stood
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Hurricane Katrina was a man-made and natural disaster. The hurricane‚ of course‚ was a natural disaster. The after effects like the levees breaching‚ people starving and dieing in the streets‚ how the government handle the situation were all man made. The reason being a man made were ‚ The man-made part of the disaster is that the government knew the levees wouldn’t hold up in a Category 3 hurricane‚ and they didn’t shore them up anyway. What was also man-made was the fact that the government
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that I think everything was done the way it should have been done. All the nurses and physicians did what they could to keep the hospital running as smoothly as they possibly could. The hospital went through a devastating natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina. It was so devastating that it was hard to believe it really happened. No one could stop it only mother nature. It happened and it was real. Memorial hospital became like an island of only the hospital as the flood waters rose around it(Anna
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National Security Strategy The date September 11‚ 2001 has changed the way in which the entire world started to perceive threats and their own security related to these threats. Concerning the security and approach of the U.S.‚ the White House has published its new ‘National Security Strategy’ in 2002 setting a guideline for its eventual war on terrorism. This is the primary text that will be mainly dealt with in this writing because it is the official source showing U.S. plans of
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Homeland Security Today’s Attack Prevention: Effective for Businesses? CMGT/441 Introduction to Information Systems Management A cyber-attack is a deliberate exploitation of computer systems‚ technology-dependent enterprises‚ and networks (Janssen‚ n.d.). There are 11 potential security threats thought to be the top security threats for 2013; targeted attacks and cyber-espionage‚ hacktivism‚ nation-state-sponsored cyber-attacks‚ legal surveillance tools‚ clouds and malware‚ privacy threats‚ fake
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