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Obama Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order

By   /  February 15, 2013  /  Cyber Security  /  No Comments

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President Obama has signed the long-awaited executive order directing the U.S. federal government to share cyberthreat information with critical infrastructure owners. The order also requires the government to work with business to develop IT security best practices that infrastructure owners could voluntarily adopt. Read more @ www.govinfosecurity.com

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Analysts use Social Media to Influence National Security

By   /  July 11, 2012  /  #smem, General News  /  No Comments

From the Tech Insider Blog @ nextgov.com This morning on Wired’s Danger Room blog, David Axe wrote about the rise of Information Dissemination, a blog dedicated to covering and analyzing updates in the U.S. Navy’s strategy, technology and communications. Led by New York City consultant Raymond Pritchett, the group of authors has actively covered updates in [...]

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Solving the approval and political overlay problems

By   /  May 4, 2012  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

From the Crisis Comm Blog by Gerald Baron Information approvals, political overlay of messages, “sanitizing” response information—these are among the biggest challenges for emergency communicators. That was brought home to me again yesterday talking with some communicators about how the local political authorities slowed the release of information by requiring consolidation and their approval. Worse, [...]

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Napolitano Stresses Cooperation With Nation’s Fusion Centers

By   /  April 6, 2012  /  Homeland Security  /  No Comments

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano traveled to Phoenix, Ariz., this week to meet with state and major urban area fusion center leaders and to discuss ongoing information sharing and analysis programs and collaboration with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial partners at the 2012 National Fusion Center Training Event. In the wake [...]

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Information and Messages–what’s the difference?

By   /  March 28, 2012  /  #smem, Emergency Management  /  No Comments

From Gerald Baron @ the Crisis Comm Blog I’m kind of locking myself away these days to get some serious work done on a new book and manual I’ve been working on for some time. It’s essentially designed to be a template to enable crisis and emergency communicators to develop comms plans that will work. [...]

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