This DAP highlights – Cyber Fundamentals from FS-ISAC / Gate 15’s Weekly Security Sprint EP 71 - Playing the hits – hurricanes, ransomware, hostile events. 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 12 June 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.
FB-ISAO Newsletter
Volume 6, Issue 6
June-2024
Articles in this month’s newsletter include:
- Severe Weather Preparedness
May 2024 has been the busiest severe weather May in the U.S. in 13! Several significant severe weather events occurred as tornados and thunderstorms caused destruction and fatalities throughout the Midwest and throughout the month.
The article provides several free resources and tools available for organizations to prepare for various severe weather events.
- Everyone Might Not Need to Know When You’re OOO (Out-of-Office)!
Before you leave work behind, make sure all of your ducks are in a row, including advising managers and colleagues of your impending time off. But who really needs to know when we’re gone and how much information do they need?
The article explains the risks of OOO messages and recommends safeguards.
The newsletter also Spotlights:
- Ask Me Anything
When one considers all the challenges that House of Worship security practitioners must address, consider not going it alone! FB ISAO is a community of force multipliers! It is quite likely that a fellow member may have come across the same challenge(s) and they may have found a solution. Why re-invent the wheel? The FB ISAO Slack #ask-me-anything channel is where members and the FB ISAO team can lend a hand or a head!
The FB-ISAO Cyber and Physical Threat Levels remain Elevated.
The newsletter also covers the FB-ISAO Advisory Board, how to join FB-ISAO, FB-ISAO Slack, and upcoming FB-ISAO events.
The June 2024 Newsletter has been directly distributed to members and may be accessed here.
Want this newsletter delivered directly to your inbox each month? Want to join the FB ISAO Slack #ask-me-anything channel and a wide variety of other threat and security coordination channels? Join FB-ISAO! Membership in FB-ISAO is open to all Faith-Based Organizations including Houses of Worship, Charities, Faith-Based Schools and their affiliated organizations.
Follow Up to Massive Parish Theft
NBC 5 News reports Dallas pastor steals properties from 3 churches: DA.
“The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said a jury found Whitney Foster, 56, guilty of property theft at $300,000 or more after illegally taking the properties of First Christian Church in Lancaster, Canada Drive Church in Dallas, and Nineveh in Dallas.”
Yesterday’s FB-ISAO Daily Awareness Post (DAP) highlighted a massive parish theft and other thefts from Faith-Based Organizations. The DAP also provided recommendations from a retired IRS investigator.
FB-ISAO’s 11 March 2024 Daily Awareness Post (DAP) highlighted an embezzlement story where a California church administrator stole $350,000.
The 11 March DAP provided Smart Church Management’s 10 Practices That Safeguard Your Church Against Embezzlement – Smart Church Management.
The DAP also provided the Church Mutual’s Preventing Fraud And Embezzlement pdf.
Weekly Security Sprint EP 68. Physical Security – palooza!
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.
On this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy discuss:
- Gate 15’s SUN transition to the Gate 15 Resilience and Intelligence Portal (GRIP) hosted on the Cyware Collaborate platform. Starting on 17 June 2024, the GRIP will be the only means to access the SUN.
- NCTC Mobilization Indicators – 2021 version
- Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on FBI’s Quarterly Uniform Crime Report
- FBI Releases 2024 Quarterly Crime Report and Use-of-Force Data Update
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Interagency Security Committee: Managing Risk of Adverse/Involuntary Employee Separations An Interagency Security Committee Guide, 2024 Edition.
- UK NPSA: Mitigation of Terrorist Threats at Venues during Ingress and Egress Guidance
- FBI Urges Safety and Security During Pride Month
- Suspected IS supporter arrested at Cologne airport
- ISIS makes ‘lone wolves’ threat to Paris 2024 Olympics with chilling mock-up of Eiffel Tower being attacked by drone
- Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
The above Gate 15 Weekly Security Sprint website also provides links to many security-related items of interest.
Information on other Gate 15 podcasts can be found at Podcasts (gate15.global).
More Faith-Based Stories
Hammer-wielding vandal smashes religious statues outside Brooklyn church in ‘heinous act’
NOPD releases images of suspect wanted in vandalizing Jesus statue at Uptown church
Nashville school shooter’s violent rant REVEALED at last: (name omitted) wrote about her ‘torture’ as a trans girl and how she would ‘kill’ to get puberty blockers (2023 Covenant School shooter)
Levels of online hate and harassment remain high, ADL survey finds
ADL: How Antisemites, Extremists and Conspiracy Theorists are Exploiting the Anti-Vax Movement
MI: Religious Groups Seek Protection From LGBTQ+ Discrimination Law
Hearing: Crossing the Line: Abortion Bans and Interstate Travel for Care After Dobbs, 12 Jun.
Select All-Hazards Stories
8 people with suspected ties to ISIS arrested in Philly, NYC and LA: Sources and Feds arrest 8 Tajik nationals in US after surveillance abroad found potential ties to terrorism, sources say
ISIS tells Americans they’ll ‘drink their blood’ in terrifying promise to attack
DHS Office of Inspector General: DHS Needs to Improve Its Screening and Vetting of Asylum Seekers and Noncitizens Applying for Admission into the United States – (REDACTED)
U.S. deploys warships as Russian fleet makes close pass to Florida in approach to Cuba and Moscow Times: Old Friends Reunite as Cuba Welcomes Russian Naval Ships For Exercises
Russia, Belarus launch a second stage of drills to train troops in tactical nuclear weapons
Recorded Future: Israel-Hamas Conflict and US Elections Drive Violent Extremist Threats in 2024 and pdf
Examining the pro-Palestine protests and their wider implications
How to Mitigate Physical Security Risks in a Corporate Environment
Heavy Rain in Southern Florida; Severe Weather in the Upper Midwest; Excessive Heat Across the West National Weather Service
Colorado State University: CSU: Forecast for 2024 Hurricane Activity
No one wants another pandemic—but bird flu has already flown the coop and USDA reports more H5N1 detections in mice and cats
Facebook, Meta, Apple, Amazon Most Impersonated in Phishing Scams
More Security-focused Content
The FB-ISAO’s sponsor Gate 15 publishes a free daily newsletter called the SUN. Curated from their open source intelligence collection process, the SUN informs leaders and analysts with the critical news of the day and provides a holistic look at the current global, all-hazards threat environment. Ahead of the daily news cycle, the SUN allows current situational awareness into the topics that will impact your organization. To sign-up for The SUN, please sign up below.
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