Homeland Security
Manchester Attack – Known Vulnerabilities
With the Manchester U.K. suicide bombing incident still under investigation, it is hard to draw final conclusions regarding security failures in this incident. What we know now is that the…
Read MoreBin Laden Marketing to Lone Wolves
Bin Laden is an über brand name in terrorism. Osama Bin Laden’s son, Hamza, has recently narrated a video encouraging Lone Wolf terrorists to act, one of several videos he…
Read MoreSecurity at Cannes
Next week is the opening of the famous Cannes Film Festival, celebrating its 70th anniversary with maximum glitz and glamour. Hundreds of thousands attend. After the horrific terrorist attack in…
Read MoreICE’s Voice?
Controversy is everywhere these days. Not surprisingly, the opening of a new office under the auspices of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) called Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) began with…
Read MoreLaptop Bombs are Not New
Bringing an airliner down has been a big prize of terrorists since .. forever. It is hardly a new goal. The most recent U.S. security shift is a ban in…
Read MoreNational Security Strategy
A National Security Strategy has been produced every few years going back to 1987, under the Reagan administration. The latest NSS was published in 2002 and 2006 by President Bush,…
Read MoreBorder Security that Trumps
Some people are comparing Trump’s vision for a fence along the Mexico-U.S. border with the Security/Separation Fence that runs along the West Bank in Israel. A far better example that…
Read MoreTrump’s Homeland Security Efforts Fall Short
With any large influx of people or for that matters goods, our ability to control and identify the traffic is challenged. Through the decades, anyone involved in securing these flows…
Read MoreThe Controversy around the Real ID Act
The Real ID Act was first enacted back in 2005, in response to recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission to combat fake IDs, a critical terrorist tool. Starting in 2015,…
Read MoreWomen in Security
Ninety percent or more of the attendees at our security executive seminars are men. And those women who attend our training are usually security executives working at the highest levels…
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