Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 23 October 2023

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. 

ISIS Calls for Jewish Attacks Around the World

Terrorist group ISIS has called for violent targeting of Jewish people worldwide in response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas… Published on Friday in Arabic in Al-Naba, a weekly magazine by ISIS, it advocates for violence and murder against Jewish people worldwide. The terror group has a history of systematic persecution of religious groups, including Muslims. Issue 413 contains an infographic titled, “Practical ways to support Muslims in Palestine,” which encourages attacks on Jewish people and Israel, with the goal of “returning its land to the House of Islam again,” a translation from Arabic to English completed by Newsweek has found… outlines how its supporters can help ISIS military efforts, including “targeting Jewish neighborhoods in America, Europe and the rest of the world,” and “attacking the Jewish and Crusader embassies with burning and vandalism,” the Newsweek translation has found. It also promotes “targeting Jewish temples (synagogues) spread everywhere” as well as attacking “Jewish economic interests spread throughout the world.” … the “battlefield” is not limited to Palestine and “includes all places of the Jewish presence.”’ Additional information being shared in FB-ISAO Slack. 

18 Oct FBI Statement on Israel-HAMAS Conflict

As the conflict continues, the FBI has seen an increase in reports of threats against Jewish, Muslim, and Arab communities and institutions. We take all potential threats seriously and are working closely with our law enforcement partners to determine their credibility, share information, and take appropriate investigative action. As always, we encourage members of the public to immediately report anything they consider suspicious to law enforcement. 

The Gate 15 Interview: The Return of Kim Milford! On being a CISO, cyber resilience in higher ed and… kumquats?

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.

In this episode of The Gate 15 Interview, Andy Jabbour welcomes back Kim Milford, Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to this role, Kim was the Executive Director and CISO at the REN-ISAC, working with research and education institutions and partners to provide member institutions with the information and tools to better defend their environments from threats.

In the discussion they address:

• Life as a CISO
• Social engineering and taking a more human-centric approach to security
• Identity as an initial attack vector
• Challenges around regulated research
• Private-Public Partnership
• Cyber Resilience
• Liberated thinking on strategy and technology
• Digital Twins and privacy
• And they play Three Questions with Kim Milford

Information on other Gate 15 blogs can be found at Podcasts (gate15.global).