Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 05 December 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. 

DHS & DOJ INVITATION 12/6 @1PM EST: Pre-Holiday Security Briefing and Training for Faith-based Communities Webinar

DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Pre-Holiday Security Briefing and Training for Faith-based Communities

Hosted By:

U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Justice

Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Time:  1:00-2:30pm EST 

As communities prepare for holiday celebrations and gatherings, senior leadership from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice will provide an up-to-date threat assessment, basic training on identifying and preventing potential hate and security incidents and share resources for faith communities.

This invitation is closed to the press.

Register in advance for this webinar.

Webinar Registration – Zoom (zoomgov.com)

Analyst Comments:

Members of the faith community should consider attending this webinar to better prepare for the holidays.

More information and resources can be found at Faith-Based and Volunteer Partnership Resources.

MC USA launches Safe Church webpage, updates to 2023 Circle of Grace curriculum

Safe Church, Mennonite Church USA’s newly formed abuse prevention ministry, now has a webpage available on the MC USA website. The webpage offers resources to help faith communities keep children, youth and vulnerable adults safe from all abuse. Among other materials, the webpage contains a major update to the Circle of Grace curriculum.

Analyst Comments:

While there is widespread concern about protecting Faith-Based Organizations from outside physical and cyber threats, it is also important to consider protecting youth and vulnerable adults from inside threats.

Weekly Security Sprint EP 45. Physical Security incidents, geo-political considerations, weather updates, and more.

The Gate 15 Security Sprint is a 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.

Check out some of the references made at the top of the podcast:

• The Faith-Based Information Sharing & Analysis Organization (FB-ISAO)
• TribalHub’s Fall 2023 Magazine is Here!
• ZeroFox Unspoken Security Podcast: Build Diverse Teams…or Die!

In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy discuss:

• Terrorism & Extremism
• Severe Weather
• Geopolitics & Cascading Effects

The above Gate 15 Weekly Security Sprint website also provides links to many security-related items of interest.

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