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Elections Perspective: On November 4th, let us stand together as Americans

2 November 2020 Gate 15

By Andy Jabbour Elections are inherently divisive, and (if you listen to the rhetoric) each one is “the most important…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: election 2020, elections, security

Serving My Community: Service in Homeland Security

19 September 2019 Gate 15

By Andy Jabbour In establishing Gate 15, one area I hoped to develop was the idea of service. As a…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: homeland security

Perpetual Preparedness

3 September 2019 Gate 15

By Mayya Saab National Preparedness Month is recognized each September to promote family and community disaster as well as emergency…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: FEMA, hurricanes, preparedness

Breaking Down the Wall between Physical and Cyber Security

1 July 2019 Gate 15

In this update on threats that are neither entirely comprised of physical or cyber parts, known as blended and complex threats, we explore their complexities and consequences as they become relevant to the security and resiliency of our critical infrastructure

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, complex threats, cybersecurity, healthcare, hotels, iot, security

Complex IoT & Commercial Facilities

1 May 2019 Gate 15

A webinar for the RE-ISAC by Trend Micro’s Numaan Huq and Stephen Hilt, and a panel discussion including Numaan, Stephen and Gate 15’s Jennifer Walker.

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, Commercial Facilities, cybersecurity, internet of things, ISAC, re-isac, real estate, Trend Micro

Are We Getting Left of Boom in This Blended and Complex World?

29 April 2019 Gate 15

We use the term blended and complex threats to account for threats that operate within and cross-over physical and cyber boundaries. This post includes examples of the terms above contextualized in recent incidents and vulnerabilities.

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Password Security: Three Things to Do Today

13 March 2019 Gate 15

Three simple things that anyone can to do to maintain reasonable password security.

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: cybersecurity, data breach, passwords, preparedness, security

Help! Is This a Cyber or Physical Threat?

1 March 2019 Gate 15

By Omar Tisza As cyber-adversaries become sophisticated in their attacks against critical infrastructure, we see the level of sophistication between…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, complex threats, cybersecurity, infrastructure, risk management, security

Complex and Blended Threats: Weaponizing the Cyber World

4 February 2019 Gate 15

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, complex threats, cybersecurity, infrastructure, risk management, security

Recognizing Homeland Security Excellence

30 January 2019 Gate 15

By Mayya Saab This January, our team gathered for one of our too infrequent in-person all-hands huddles. Among the other…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: cybersecurity, homeland security, operational coordination, risk management, security

Have a Blended and Complex New Year!

2 January 2019 Gate 15

By Omar Tisza In our quest to continue exploring salient examples of complex and blended threats, we have complied a…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, complex threats, cybersecurity, infrastructure, risk management, security

Gate 15: What’s in a Name?

28 December 2018 Gate 15

I often get asked, “what is Gate 15” or “what does that mean?” A lot of folks assume it has…

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Not-So-Bold Predictions: ISACs Continue Close Collaboration in 2019…

5 December 2018 Gate 15

by Andy Jabbour   Too many cookies, another Detroit Lions loss, and a slew of predictions for next year… it…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: cybersecurity, exercises, homeland security, infrastructure, ISAC, operational coordination, preparedness, risk management

Complex and Blended Threats: Global Cyber Attacks are Now Human Attacks

26 November 2018 Gate 15

By Omar Tisza   Cyber threats are increasingly gaining the full attention of industry and–most recently–government as the Department of…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, cybersecurity, homeland security, preparedness, risk management, security

Congratulations, CISA, and Happy Thanksgiving

20 November 2018 Gate 15

By Andy Jabbour     Eleven months ago, I wrote: Following the House of Representatives, the US Senate needs to approve…

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Complex Threats: Ransomware, Hurricanes, Murder, Defacements, Bots, and Blackouts… 😓

29 October 2018 Gate 15

Over the course of this year, our team has shared a number of posts regarding blended and complex threats. As…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, cybersecurity, homeland security, preparedness, risk management, security

Prison Radicalization Doesn’t Have to be Inevitable, But Real Change Is Needed

28 October 2018 Gate 15

By Bridget Johnson   A federal judge delivered a pointed criticism of how the corrections system deals with jihadism when…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: al-Qaeda, homeland security, islamic state, national security, terrorism

Potatoes and Tomatoes: You Say Blended, I Say Complex…

16 October 2018 Gate 15

“If you don’t immediately stop the clearing of the Hambach Forest, we will attack your servers and bring down your…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, cybersecurity, homeland security, security

It’s Time for an FBI Cybercrime College Scholarship Program

14 October 2018 Gate 15

by Andy Jabbour Seemingly every day a new data breach is reported, a new cybercrime effort is launched, fraud and extortion…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: cybersecurity, FBI, law enforcement, national security, preparedness

Blended Threats! McAfee Labs Addresses Digital Impacts to Physical Infrastructure

12 October 2018 Gate 15

“Cyberattacks have always been, well, cyber. Their immediate effects were on our data, our digital information, and our devices…until they…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, cybersecurity, homeland security, infrastructure, mcafee, preparedness, security

Blended Threats: Mining Takes a Toll!

25 September 2018 Gate 15

A new report from  the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) highlights one type of blended threat that organizations should be aware…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, cybersecurity, exercises, homeland security, infrastructure, preparedness, risk management, security

Supporting the Community of Faith

17 September 2018 Gate 15

Sean Lyngaas, @snlyngaas, writing in CyberScoop last week, wrote, “When it comes to protecting faith-based organizations from hackers, divine intervention will…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: cybersecurity, gate 15, homeland security, information sharing, ISAO, preparedness, resilience, security

Security Spotlight: An Interview with WaterISAC Managing Director Michael Arceneaux

20 August 2018 Gate 15

US critical infrastructure, most recently defined in President Obama’s 2013 Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21): Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience,…

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Blended Threats: The Oracle Has Spoken!

14 August 2018 Gate 15

In this blog, we’ve written a few times about the idea of “Blended Threats,” and some of the ways the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, cybersecurity, homeland security, infrastructure, preparedness, risk management, security

PERSPECTIVE: Spotting Pre-Attack Planning Indicators to Disrupt the Hostile Events Cycle

13 August 2018 Gate 15

By David Pounder This is the third and final part of an ongoing series focused on the Hostile Events Attack…

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Observations on the Unite the Right Rally, from White Nationalists to Antifa

Gate 15

By Bridget Johnson (@BridgetCJ)   Much of the action at Saturday’s Unite the Right rally in Washington took place off…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: antifa, extremism, homeland security, protests, risk management, security, unite the right, white nationalists, White Supremacy

Higher Education: A Complex Array of Threats

6 August 2018 Gate 15

By Brett Zupan   There is a tremendous amount of information that analysts, security and risk leaders, executives, and others…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, cybersecurity, higher ed, ISAC, preparedness, protests, security, White Supremacy

PERSPECTIVE: Hostile Events Attack Cycle from Target Selection Through Rehearsal Stage

16 July 2018 Gate 15

By David Pounder This is the second part of an ongoing series focused on the Hostile Events Attack Cycle. Previously…

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Security Spotlight: An Interview with NH-ISAC President Denise Anderson

Gate 15

In a recent post introducing the preparedness efforts that the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC) is taking to…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: blended threats, cybersecurity, exercises, healthcare, homeland security, infrastructure, ISAC, preparedness

PERSPECTIVE: Picking Target, Surveillance Begin the Hostile Events Attack Cycle

25 June 2018 Gate 15

By David Pounder Threats operate in all shapes and sizes, and whether by design or not they tend to follow…

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