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In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
- Sen. Markey, Rep. Schakowsky Introduce Legislation To Protect Clean Water And Wastewater Utilities
- AMWA endorses legislation to encourage WaterISAC participation
- FS-ISAC Releases Guidance On The Future State Of Generative AI In Financial Services
- Senate Intelligence Committee: 03/25/2025 – 10:00am, Open Hearing: Worldwide Threats (complete hearing available here)
- 2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community
- ODNI: 2025 Annual Threat Assessment Of The U.S. Intelligence Community & Download the report
Main Topics:
Severe Weather
- AccuWeather – Dynamic hurricane season predicted for Atlantic in 2025
- Noem says she plans to ‘eliminate FEMA’
- Ranking Members Thompson & Kennedy: Trump Administration Continuing to Call for Elimination of FEMA and Play Politics with its Workforce Will Cost Lives
- US GAO – Disaster Assistance: Improving the Federal Approach
- Sessions Announces Hearing on FEMA Reform Opportunities, Recovery Efforts in North Carolina. March 26, 2025, 10:00 a.m. ET
- Powerful earthquake rocks Myanmar and Thailand, killing at least 3 in Bangkok high-rise collapse
- Deaths from devastating earthquake in Myanmar climb past 1,700
Vehicle Ramming & Terrorism
- Into the Crowd: The Evolution of Vehicular Attacks and Prevention Efforts
- UK NPSA: Considerations for Temporary Vehicle Security Barriers; Last Updated 20 March 2025
- CSIS: Global Terrorism Threat Assessment 2025
North Korean Worker Threats
- How To Proactively Mitigate The DPRK IT Worker Employment Scam
- The North Korea worker problem is bigger than you think
Quick Hits:
- Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid
- Oracle Health breach compromises patient data at US hospitals
- Oracle attempt to hide serious cybersecurity incident from customers in Oracle SaaS service
- Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing thousands of customers‘ PII
- Scammers Entice U.S. Taxpayers With Fund Recovery Services on Facebook, TikTok
- No MFA? Expect Hefty Fines, UK’s ICO Warns
- Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows
- A sweeping cyber law’s long road to renewal— The 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is set to expire this September.
- IngressNightmare: 9.8 Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX
- Nevada Resident Arrested and Charged in Connection with Violent Tesla Arson in Las Vegas
- Amsterdam: Several wounded after stabbing near Dam Square
- Justice Department Announces Arrest of MS-13 Leader, Director Patel’s Remarks at Virginia Homeland Security Task Force Press Conference & Chairman Green Issues Statement on the Capture of MS-13 Leader
- CISA Releases Malware Analysis Report on RESURGE Malware Associated with Ivanti Connect Secure
Read more about Gate 15’s full podcast menu at our Podcast page. You can subscribe and enjoy all the Gate 15 Podcasts on Spotify for Podcasters, Apple, Spotify, as well as other locations accessible from the Spotify for Podcasters link. Week-to-week, you can hear and learn more about our all-hazards threats, risks, mitigation and other issues impacting homeland security risk management from our team as well as our regular and special guests. The full podcast menu includes:
- The Security Sprint is our weekly rundown of the week’s notable all-hazards security news, risks and threats and some of the key focus areas for organizations to consider behind the headlines. Gate 15 team members discuss physical security, cybersecurity, natural hazards, health threats and other issues across our environment.
- Nerd Out! Security Panel Discussion, moderated by Dave Pounder, focuses on physical security topics including terrorism, extremism, hostile events, and other pertinent topics.
- The Gate 15 Interview, is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues.
- The Cybersecurity Evangelist, with Jennifer Lyn Walker, is a cybersecurity-focused discussion with Jen and invited guests. This is presently a Gate 15 special podcast and occasionally is updated on our Gate 15 podcast channel.
- Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series was a 2024 limited series podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosted a series of short interviews with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.
- The Risk Roundtable, was a monthly discussion among our team and occasional guests exploring the all-hazards threats and risks impacting the United States and internationally. This was suspended in September 2023.
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