Recognizing Homeland Security Excellence
By Mayya Saab This January, our team gathered for one of our too infrequent in-person all-hands huddles. Among the other points of discussion, we took some time to recognize our team and introduce three new awards recognizing areas we consider important to our success...
Have a Blended and Complex New Year!
By Omar Tisza In our quest to continue exploring salient examples of complex and blended threats, we have complied a few incidents and articles that further underscore a need for understanding such threats. Looking to 2018 retrospectively as we turn to yet another...
Gate 15: What’s in a Name?
I often get asked, “what is Gate 15” or “what does that mean?” A lot of folks assume it has something to do with airports and / or my military deployments. Actually, Gate 15 is an acronym. The name Gate 15 is acronym, representing the priorities I established when I...
Not-So-Bold Predictions: ISACs Continue Close Collaboration in 2019…
by Andy Jabbour Too many cookies, another Detroit Lions loss, and a slew of predictions for next year… it must be that wonderful time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s! From what will be trending to what the big headlines will be, as many experts (and...
Complex and Blended Threats: Global Cyber Attacks are Now Human Attacks
By Omar Tisza Cyber threats are increasingly gaining the full attention of industry and–most recently–government as the Department of Homeland Security establishes the newly announced Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to advance the state...
Congratulations, CISA, and Happy Thanksgiving
By Andy Jabbour Eleven months ago, I wrote: Following the House of Representatives, the US Senate needs to approve the re-designation of DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) to become the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...