Homeland Security
Black History Month: Honoring Women of Color and their Contributions to Security
Black History Month is a time for Americans to honor people of color, celebrating their role in everything ranging from arts and culture to science and technology. The pool of…
Read MoreAccessing Federal Funding to Mitigate Nonprofit Threat Vulnerabilities
Guest Post by Robert B. Goldberg Congress appropriated $305 million in December for this year’s (FY 2023) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP). This constituted a…
Read MoreA Changing U.S. Threat Environment
For decades, organizations in the United States have been accustomed to looking outward for threats. Prevention efforts were focused mostly on bad guys coming from outside the organization to attack…
Read MoreSystematic Security Failure at the Capitol
US Capitol January 6, 2021 The burning of the German Parliament in 1933 “We can afford being attacked; we cannot afford being surprised.” This is what the Sergeant at…
Read MoreProtecting People’s Right to Vote
Emotion and commotion around the presidential election of 2020 is unprecedented. Citizens of all political stripes are coming together this and next month to declare themselves. Violent clashes and protests…
Read MoreThe Courage to Debate
My daughter’s class is studying 9/11, so at the dinner table it was naturally the prime subject for discussion. I asked what the teacher had said about 9/11 and my…
Read More8 Lessons from Soldiers to Deal with Uncertainty and Stress
In this time of uncertainty, anxiety and fear, we look for tools to help us to cope. There are many lessons to be learned from our men and women in…
Read MoreRussian Surveillance is Nothing New
Russian surveillance is nothing new. Back in 1945, the Russians gave U.S. Ambassador Harriman a gift of a wall plaque that years later was revealed to be bugged. (Link here…
Read MoreSixteen Years of Predictive Profiling
Back in 2002, I was driving with a colleague to see a client in Palmdale, California, a couple hours’ drive outside of Los Angeles. This was only a few months…
Read MoreAge of Fear?
[S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513…
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