This document discusses terrorism in the Middle East and its impact on the United States. It notes that over 3,000 people were killed in terrorist attacks in 2011, and the US ranks second globally for most terrorism-related deaths. The document advocates for increased vigilance and security measures to curb terrorism and save lives, while also outlining some signs that could indicate an impending terrorist attack. Reducing terrorism would benefit national security by lessening threats and eliminating the need for costly security protocols. Overall, concerted anti-terrorism efforts are needed to make countries stronger and their citizens feel safer.
The International Crisis Management Exercise is a scenario, role-play exercise that takes place on a Saturday during the spring semester. In this daylong simulation, students act as members of the National Security Council and work together to come up with recommendations for an acting President regarding a mock international crisis.
From the ten high schools participating in the Council’s educational program Great Decisions, a group of students are selected from each school to assume the roles of members of the National Security Council and represent different agencies or interests in the U.S. Government. Participation in this impactful and highly educational event is selective. Teachers choose their respective 4-6 participants based on their overall attendance and participation in the Great Decisions meetings during the past academic year.
The exercise simulates the U.S. Government’s handling of a mock international crisis. All events of the day will be fictional, but plausible. With Ambassador Nancy Soderberg and Admiral Jonathan Howe, USN (Ret.) acting as Presidents, students must work together to come up with advice and recommendations regarding various aspects of the international crisis.
The International Crisis Management Exercise is a scenario, role-play exercise that takes place on a Saturday during the spring semester. In this daylong simulation, students act as members of the National Security Council and work together to come up with recommendations for an acting President regarding a mock international crisis.
From the ten high schools participating in the Council’s educational program Great Decisions, a group of students are selected from each school to assume the roles of members of the National Security Council and represent different agencies or interests in the U.S. Government. Participation in this impactful and highly educational event is selective. Teachers choose their respective 4-6 participants based on their overall attendance and participation in the Great Decisions meetings during the past academic year.
The exercise simulates the U.S. Government’s handling of a mock international crisis. All events of the day will be fictional, but plausible. With Ambassador Nancy Soderberg and Admiral Jonathan Howe, USN (Ret.) acting as Presidents, students must work together to come up with advice and recommendations regarding various aspects of the international crisis.
"Security on the Brain" Security & Risk Psychology Workshop Nov 2013Adrian Wright
Security on the Brain – Using Human Psychology to Achieve Compliance: ISSA-UK Expert Workshop
Presented by Adrian Wright - ISSA-UK VP of Research
One of the biggest wake-up calls in recent times is the realisation that more than 60% of major security breaches and data losses are down to 'human factor' failings.
Our main weapon in mitigating these failings is to spend more on in-house awareness campaigns and on technical measures to minimise any losses - yet incidents and losses continue to increase. Clearly these existing awareness campaigns and controls are not enough, as the message is still not getting through or isn't being complied with.
This presentation and workshop session challenges current thinking and strategies in dealing with people as both an asset and a source of risk, by leveraging human psychology and people's differing motivations to improve communication, change opinions and turn basic awareness into actual compliance.
In this session
Learn:
- The psychology of why we don't comply - why awareness alone won't do
- What motivates people to do - or not do - specific things
- Neurolinguistics - it's not just what you say; but how you say it and to who
- Divide and conquer - adapting your message to target specific personality types
- Changing the security culture by changing people's belief systems
- Dirty tricks (slightly) - tactics that work in changing behaviour
- Selling the unsellable - lessons from other sectors in making boring stuff sexy
Participate:
- Informal group discussion of challenges and successes from your experience
- Identifying your audience’s character types and shaping the message
- Influencing the Board by speaking their language
- Developing an internal PR strategy to improve security's image and influence
- Develop a brand new and more effective mission statement for your team
About the Presenter:
Adrian Wright CISA
20 years experience in Information Security, IT Risk Management & Compliance. Specialist in managing security, risk and compliance awareness campaigns;
9 Years Global CISO Head of InfoSec at Reuters - covering 142 countries and 250,000 systems;
10 years founder and programme director at Secoda Risk Management. Experienced speaker and writer on all things cyber security, governance, risk & compliance.
2 Years Director of Projects & 1 Year VP of Research & Board member at ISSA-UK
Having spent decades looking into the darker recesses and failings within technology; Adrian has recently turned his attention to the darker recesses and failings within the human beings that work with the technology…
a report of the csis homeland security and counterterrorism.docxevonnehoggarth79783
a report of the csis homeland
security and counterterrorism
program and the csis transnational
threats project
September 2011
1800 K Street, NW | Washington, DC 20006
Tel: (202) 887-0200 | Fax: (202) 775-3199
E-mail: [email protected] | Web: www.csis.org
Project Directors
Rick “Ozzie” Nelson
Thomas M. Sanderson
Project Coordinators
Ben Bodurian
David Gordon
Project Senior Advisers
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Juan C. Zarate
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a report of the csis homeland
security and counterterrorism
program and the csis transnational
threats project
Confronting an Uncertain Threat
the future of al qaeda and associated movements
September 2011
Project Directors
Rick “Ozzie” Nelson
Thomas M. Sanderson
Project Coordinators
Ben Bodurian
David Gordon
Project Senior Advisers
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Juan C. Zarate
ii
About CSIS
At a time of new global opportunities and challenges, the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS) provides strategic insights and bipartisan policy solutions to decisionmakers in
government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society. A bipartisan, nonprofit
organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., CSIS conducts research and analysis and devel-
ops policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change.
Founded by David M. Abshire and Admiral Arleigh Burke at the height of the Cold War, CSIS
was dedicated to finding ways for America to sustain its prominence and prosperity as a force for
good in the world.
Since 1962, CSIS has grown to become one of the world’s preeminent international policy
institutions, with more than 220 full-time staff and a large network of affiliated scholars focused
on defense and security, regional stability, and transnational challenges ranging from energy and
climate to global development and economic integration.
Former U.S. senator Sam Nunn became chairman of the CSIS Board of Trustees in 1999, and
John J. Hamre has led CSIS as its president and chief executive officer since 2000.
CSIS does not take specific policy positions; accordingly, all views expressed herein should be
understood to be solely those of the author(s).
Cover photos: Top—President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and members of the na-
tional security team, including Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, far right, Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, standing, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the
White House, May 1, 2011. A classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured.
White House photo by Pete Souza, http://www.defense.gov/dodcmsshare/homepagepho-
to/2011-05/hires_P050111PS-0210c.jpg. Middle—Map of.
44CON 2013 - Security Lessons from Dictators - Jerry Gamblin44CON
What do the Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Kim Jong-un, Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolph Hitler have to do with network security? Come and discover the mistakes these dictators made and what they can teach us about network security and how to apply them to our companies and coworkers.
"Security on the Brain" Security & Risk Psychology Workshop Nov 2013Adrian Wright
Security on the Brain – Using Human Psychology to Achieve Compliance: ISSA-UK Expert Workshop
Presented by Adrian Wright - ISSA-UK VP of Research
One of the biggest wake-up calls in recent times is the realisation that more than 60% of major security breaches and data losses are down to 'human factor' failings.
Our main weapon in mitigating these failings is to spend more on in-house awareness campaigns and on technical measures to minimise any losses - yet incidents and losses continue to increase. Clearly these existing awareness campaigns and controls are not enough, as the message is still not getting through or isn't being complied with.
This presentation and workshop session challenges current thinking and strategies in dealing with people as both an asset and a source of risk, by leveraging human psychology and people's differing motivations to improve communication, change opinions and turn basic awareness into actual compliance.
In this session
Learn:
- The psychology of why we don't comply - why awareness alone won't do
- What motivates people to do - or not do - specific things
- Neurolinguistics - it's not just what you say; but how you say it and to who
- Divide and conquer - adapting your message to target specific personality types
- Changing the security culture by changing people's belief systems
- Dirty tricks (slightly) - tactics that work in changing behaviour
- Selling the unsellable - lessons from other sectors in making boring stuff sexy
Participate:
- Informal group discussion of challenges and successes from your experience
- Identifying your audience’s character types and shaping the message
- Influencing the Board by speaking their language
- Developing an internal PR strategy to improve security's image and influence
- Develop a brand new and more effective mission statement for your team
About the Presenter:
Adrian Wright CISA
20 years experience in Information Security, IT Risk Management & Compliance. Specialist in managing security, risk and compliance awareness campaigns;
9 Years Global CISO Head of InfoSec at Reuters - covering 142 countries and 250,000 systems;
10 years founder and programme director at Secoda Risk Management. Experienced speaker and writer on all things cyber security, governance, risk & compliance.
2 Years Director of Projects & 1 Year VP of Research & Board member at ISSA-UK
Having spent decades looking into the darker recesses and failings within technology; Adrian has recently turned his attention to the darker recesses and failings within the human beings that work with the technology…
a report of the csis homeland security and counterterrorism.docxevonnehoggarth79783
a report of the csis homeland
security and counterterrorism
program and the csis transnational
threats project
September 2011
1800 K Street, NW | Washington, DC 20006
Tel: (202) 887-0200 | Fax: (202) 775-3199
E-mail: [email protected] | Web: www.csis.org
Project Directors
Rick “Ozzie” Nelson
Thomas M. Sanderson
Project Coordinators
Ben Bodurian
David Gordon
Project Senior Advisers
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Juan C. Zarate
Confronting an Uncertain Threat
the future of al qaeda and associated movements
C
o
n
fo
n
tin
g
an
U
n
certain
T
h
reat
N
elso
n
an
d
S
an
d
erso
n
Ë|xHSKITCy066674zv*:+:!:+:!
ISBN 978-0-89206-667-4
a report of the csis homeland
security and counterterrorism
program and the csis transnational
threats project
Confronting an Uncertain Threat
the future of al qaeda and associated movements
September 2011
Project Directors
Rick “Ozzie” Nelson
Thomas M. Sanderson
Project Coordinators
Ben Bodurian
David Gordon
Project Senior Advisers
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Juan C. Zarate
ii
About CSIS
At a time of new global opportunities and challenges, the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS) provides strategic insights and bipartisan policy solutions to decisionmakers in
government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society. A bipartisan, nonprofit
organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., CSIS conducts research and analysis and devel-
ops policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change.
Founded by David M. Abshire and Admiral Arleigh Burke at the height of the Cold War, CSIS
was dedicated to finding ways for America to sustain its prominence and prosperity as a force for
good in the world.
Since 1962, CSIS has grown to become one of the world’s preeminent international policy
institutions, with more than 220 full-time staff and a large network of affiliated scholars focused
on defense and security, regional stability, and transnational challenges ranging from energy and
climate to global development and economic integration.
Former U.S. senator Sam Nunn became chairman of the CSIS Board of Trustees in 1999, and
John J. Hamre has led CSIS as its president and chief executive officer since 2000.
CSIS does not take specific policy positions; accordingly, all views expressed herein should be
understood to be solely those of the author(s).
Cover photos: Top—President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and members of the na-
tional security team, including Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, far right, Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, standing, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the
White House, May 1, 2011. A classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured.
White House photo by Pete Souza, http://www.defense.gov/dodcmsshare/homepagepho-
to/2011-05/hires_P050111PS-0210c.jpg. Middle—Map of.
44CON 2013 - Security Lessons from Dictators - Jerry Gamblin44CON
What do the Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Kim Jong-un, Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolph Hitler have to do with network security? Come and discover the mistakes these dictators made and what they can teach us about network security and how to apply them to our companies and coworkers.
2. Why is this topic important
• This topic is very important because people in
America are getting killed and injured from
terrorist attacks.
• In 2011 there was over 3,000 people killed
from terrorist attacks
• Out of every where in the world America is 2nd
on a chart for most deaths from terrorist
attacks.
3. How Often does Terrorism Occur
• There has been aprxmently 641 reported
attacks of terrorism in the U.S
• We often receive threats from terrorist that
we are not even aware of.
4. What can be Done to Stop this Issue?
• You yourself can play a key role when trying to
put a stop to terrorism!
• There are many signs a terrorist might show
before an attack such as, watching or observing
activities, testing or recording reaction time of a
security system, or someone who is purchasing
suspicious weapons.
• We can also make it harder to for people to get
weapons or supplies that could be used for a
terrorist attack.
5. What are the Benefits of Stopping this
issue?
• If we stopped this issue then people would be
able to sleep better at night not having to worry
about a terrorist attack. It would eliminate the
risk of having another attack like 9/11
• We could save a lot of money because we would
not have to have so much security at airports,
national monuments and other places.
• We would also not have to send troops over seas
if we stopped terrorism.
• It would save a lot of lives!
6. • Now you know how terrorism has effected
America, also why and how to put and end to
it. If we all do our part in stopping terrorism
then we can make this country a even better
and stronger one!
