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Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post

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:

  1. remarks from senior DHS leaders and an update on previous council recommendations and reports which are available here:
  2. (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:

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 Security-focused Content

Read more about the 2023 Threat Data and what the data tells us about the threat landscape.
Read the March 2024 Threat Level Statement Update
Access all-hazards resources from public and private sector partners, curated by the FB-ISAO team.

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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