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 26 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.
Faith-Based Security Advisory Council Meeting
The Faith-Based Security Advisory Council (FBSAC) met on 24 June 2024.
From the Faith-Based Security Advisory Council website:
“The Faith-Based Security Advisory Council (FBSAC) provides organizationally independent, strategic, timely, specific and actionable advice to the Secretary through the Assistant Secretary for Partnership and Engagement whom also serves as the DHS Faith-Based Organization Security Coordinator. The FBSAC provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary and other senior leadership on matters related to protecting houses of worship, preparedness and enhanced coordination with the faith community.”
FBSAC advice may include:
- Strategy and Policy
- Information-sharing and Coordination
- Programs and Initiatives
- Evaluation and Feedback
The agenda for the meeting was as follows:
- remarks from senior DHS leaders and an update on previous council recommendations and reports which are available here:
- (2) briefings, public comment, member deliberation, and voting on the three draft reports from the
- Combatting Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA),
- Countering and Responding to Targeted Violence and Terrorism,
- and Countering Transnational Repression Subcommittees (TNR).
The FBSAC was tasked to create these three subcommittees on January 5, 2024. The taskings can be found on the FBSAC website.
The final report PDFs:
- FBSAC CSEA Subcommittee Final Report
- FBSAC Countering and Responding to Targeted Violence and Terrorism Subcommittee Final Report
- FBSAC TNR Subcommittee Final Report
Mayya Saab, Executive Director of FB-ISAO is a member of the Faith-Based Security Advisory Council and participates by providing input on strategy and policy, information-sharing and coordination, programs and initiatives, as well as evaluation and feedback. Mayya Saab attended the 24 June meeting. Mayya served on the subcommittee tasked with making recommendations on countering transnational repression (TNR) and helped prepare the TNR report.
Secretary Blinken to Release 2023 International Religious Freedom Report
Secretary Blinken will deliver on-camera remarks for the release of the 2023 International Religious Freedom Report on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, at 11:30 a.m. Freedom of religion or belief is both a core American value and a universal human right. Mandated by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, the annual International Religious Freedom Report details the status of religious freedom in 199 foreign countries and territories and describes U.S. actions to advance religious freedom worldwide. The International Religious Freedom Report will be available to the public on www.state.gov following the Secretary’s remarks.
Analyst Comments:
Tomorrow’s FB-ISAO Daily Awareness Post blog (DAP) will highlight the report. The report may assist Faith-Based Organizations in planning safety and security for current and future overseas operations and could inform mission preparedness activities.
Weekly Security Sprint EP 70. Shout outs, weather events, resilience, and FBI report
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, Jen and Andy discuss:
- Severe Weather!
- CDK Global: Highlighting the need for ransomware resilience!
- FBI Releases 2023 Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Report
- Info Ops
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
TN: Centerville United Methodist Church catches fire
CAIR-NY Supports Hate Crime Investigation of Alleged Feces Attack
Baptist pastor arrested for buying child pornography resigns
British Police Investigating Targeted Assault on Jewish Schoolchildren
Interfaith alliance calls on Canada to protect places of worship from vandalism
Select All-Hazards Stories
Gunman allegedly kills 5 people, critically injures 13-year-old in shootings at 2 apartments
DHS identifies over 400 migrants brought to the U.S. by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network
UT: West Jordan sign ‘electronically vandalized’, displays racial slur
More Pride Flags Destroyed At Stonewall Monument This Month: NYPD
Vandals shred several Pride flags across Evesham Township, NJ
Last of Five Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy and Who Were Charged with Targeting Energy Facility Enters Guilty Plea (occurred from 2017 to 2020)
Expanding extremist groups in Africa fuel worries that they could attack the US or Western allies
Kenyan protesters promise more rallies after at least 23 die in clashes
Lithium Batteries Are Set to Power the World—and Pose New Fire Risks and South Korea battery maker apologises for deadly fire but says it complied with safety rules
Scattered Thunderstorms Across the Ohio Valley into the Mid-Atlantic; Heat Continues in the Central and Southern U.S. National Weather Service
CDC: Increased Risk of Dengue Virus Infections in the United States
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