This DAP highlights – Neo-Nazis in Ohio and faith-based organizations targeted by multiple ransomware gangs. DAP also has More Faith-Based Stories and Select All-Hazard Stories. These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 08 January 2024
Faith-Based Security Headlines
These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
CISA: Personal Security Considerations Action Guide
The Personal Security Considerations Action Guide: Critical Infrastructure Workers helps critical infrastructure workers assess their security posture and provide options to consider whether they are on or off the job. This action guide provides actionable recommendations and resources intended to prevent and mitigate threats to a critical infrastructure worker’s personal safety. For questions regarding this action guide, please email [email protected].
PDF: Personal Security Considerations Action Guide: Critical Infrastructure Workers
Analyst Comments:
This new 7-page action guide is a great resource for Faith-Based Organization personnel and members. The guide also provides links to many other useful cyber and physical security resources.
Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series: Mark Herrera on leadership, resilience and partnership
The Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series is Gate 15’s newest podcast. Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour, hosts 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.
In this inaugural episode of Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series, Andy Jabbour talks with Mark Herrera, Director of Education for the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM). In the discussion they address:
- International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM)
- Mark’s background.
- We introduce this new podcast series.
- Leadership & Team Engagement.
- Building Resilience.
- Building Partnerships.
- What’s on Mark’s mind.
Information on other Gate 15 blogs can be found at Podcasts (gate15.global).
More Faith-Based Stories
First-Ever Religious Violence Database Launches, Tracking Reports of Violent Persecution by Date, Country, Religion and Perpetrator and Christian group launches first-ever religious violence database tracking global persecution
CA: Second East Bay Hindu Temple hit by vandalism in two weeks and Hindu American Foundation Calls for Heightened Temple Security Amid Threats
Several cars broken into, another stolen, at Baltimore’s Mt. Sinai Baptist Church and Church Break-Ins and Theft Expose Urban Crime Challenge in Baltimore
Mosque receiving increased Islamophobic threats in Baltimore County
Hate crime investigations underway after multiple Jewish-owned businesses vandalized
NC: Greensboro police release photos of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church vandalism suspects
PA: Nativity scene vandalized at Overbrook church: “Someone is hurting worse than we are”
MA: Antisemitic postcards sent to Newburyport city councilors, mayor
PDF: Kentucky Jewish Council Antisemitism Report 2023
TN: Woman frustrated after multiple items were stolen during church
NY girls HS basketball game canceled after antisemitic slurs hurled at players
Prominent Black church in New York sued for gender bias by woman who sought to be its senior pastor
Missouri Catholic priest solicited sex during confession: church
Church says priest who married teen has been defrocked
Statement from President Joe Biden on Orthodox Christmas
Exploitation and Enforcement Part II: Improving Enforcement in Countering Uyghur Forced Labor
Chinese Police Arrest Underground Catholic Bishop Loyal to Rome
Nigeria: TB Joshua: Megachurch leader raped and tortured worshippers, BBC finds
Select All-Hazards Stories
Iowa school shooter appeared to be active on Discord and discussed ‘gearing up’ in moments before attack and Iowa school shooter is believed to have posted an ominous TikTok video before killing a 6th grader and wounding 7 people
Swatting: After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients and Judge Chutkan ‘Swatted’ as Audio Released of Police Response and Athol Hospital gets bomb threat, suspected ‘swatting’
Groups plan massive march for Gaza cease-fire in DC next week
IntelBrief: With Presidential Elections Ahead, U.S. Domestic Terrorism a Major Concern
CFR: Far-Right Terrorism in the United States
Havoc in the Heartland: How Secretary Mayorkas’ Failed Leadership Has Impacted the States
Homemade bomb planted on car at Sydney home flying Palestinian flag
Islamic State attempts a comeback
Israeli strike on Lebanon kills senior commander in elite Hezbollah unit
Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in ‘initial response’ to killing of top leader from allied Hamas
Major Winter Storms to Impact the Lower 48 This Week; Flooding Concerns for Hawaii National Weather Service
Exceptional winter storm to bring travel woes as it wallops central and eastern US
Why fears over a ‘tripledemic’ are surging
At least 24 sickened in multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to charcuterie
First US lunar lander in more than 50 years rockets toward moon with commercial deliveries
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