Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 2 December 2024

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.

RAND: The Role and Impact of School Resource Officers: A Brief Discussion

From the Rand paper:

This brief paper explores the role of SROs and the impact of SROs on school safety and discipline. We review relevant literature in this area and find that, while the number of SROs in schools has increased since 2009, research shows their role can vary across schools. In addition, while SRO presence is associated with increased detection of some disruptive behavior, such as weapons and drug possession, and a decrease in violence, existing research shows that SROs’ presence is also often associated with increased disciplinary action and law enforcement referrals. In addition, research shows that students of color—particularly Black students—can be disproportionately negatively affected.

The paper discusses:

• History of SROs
• Presence of SROs Today
• Views About SROs
• What Do Data Show About the Impact of School Resource Officers?
• School Resource Officers, School Safety, Discipline, and Disproportionate Minority Contact
• Summary and Conclusion

Analyst Comments:

Many Faith-Based Organizations (FBO) operate schools. Those responsible for security at FBO schools may find this Rand paper useful.

Holiday and Cyber Monday Scams:

• CISA: Shop Safely This Holiday Season
• Scammers are delivering phishing messages this holiday season
• Cyber Monday Scams: A Comprehensive Analysis of Threats and Mitigation Strategies
• FinCEN Joins Public-Private Partnership to Combat Fraud and Scams Impacting Innocent Americans
• Meta tightens ad rules to curb financial scams aimed at Australians

The Gate 15 Interview – Angela Haun, ONE-ISAC, good intentions, and Rick Springfield

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 speaks with Angela Haun. Angela is the Executive Director with the Oil and Natural Energy Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ONE-ISAC). Appointed as ONE-ISAC Executive Director in September 2018, Angela is a retired FBI Special Agent with extensive experience in cybersecurity and protecting critical assets.. Learn more about Angela on LinkedIn.

Angela and Andy discuss:

• Angela’s Background. 
• ONG-ISAC background.
• The new, ONE-ISAC. 
• Private-public partnership.
• Good intentions, unintended consequences.
• An increasing appreciation of OT security.
• Destructive attacks.
• Building Resilience. 
• We play Three Questions and discuss playing golf course, the U.S. Capitol, and Rick Springfield, Jessie’s Girl!

Weekly Security Sprint EP 90. CISA future, more liability, and password problems

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.

In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:

• Homeland Security Transitions. Rand Paul has plans to kneecap the nation’s cyber agency
• Liability: Legal Report: A Michigan Agency Agrees to $13 Million Settlement Concerning Surprise Active Shooter Drill
• Cyber Resilience

Nerd Out EP 53. Holiday celebrations and threats, plus favorite things to eat and watch

The Gate 15 Nerd Out! Security Panel Discussion, moderated by Dave Pounder, focuses on physical security topics including terrorism, extremism, hostile events, and other pertinent topics.

In the latest episode of Nerd Out, Dave is joined by Bridget Johnson and Joe Levy to do their annual talk about holiday threats and ways to be ever vigilant. Then they talked about their favorite foods and things to watch.

• Joe Levy is the Assistant General Manager at the Barclays Center.
• Bridget Johnson is a terrorism and extremism expert who has decades worth of experience analyze threat activities.

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