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One of the Department’s top priorities is to ensure the safety and security of the American people. Within the Public Safety and Security mission, we considered lethal threats in the…

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Individuals age 12 or older participate in the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), providing an array of information related to their experiences of crime. This large-scale annual survey, administered by…

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Learn more about the consumption inequality before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. We use quarterly data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Surveys for this study augmented with additional data…

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Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management is a recognized, best practice approach for preventing targeted violence that helps bridge the gap between identifying potential threats and mitigating them—and allows organizations to…

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New methodologies are needed to identify, acquire, preserve, examine, and interpret digital evidence in multi-tenant cloud environments with rapid provisioning, global elasticity, and broad network accessibility. These methodologies will provide…

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The Bugs Framework (BF) is a classification of security bugs and related faults with multi-dimensional weakness and failure taxonomies that features a formal language for the unambiguous specification of security…

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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the following authoring partners are releasing this Cybersecurity Advisory to highlight cyber espionage activity associated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…

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Millions of Americans work in professions that support critical infrastructure. These are positions of special trust and responsibility, which are vital to their organization. Critical Infrastructure owners and operators seeking…

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Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12) mandated the creation of new standards for interoperable identity credentials for physical and logical access to Federal Government locations and systems. Federal Information Processing Standard…

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As Artificial Intelligence (AI) integrates into more areas of human activity, its potential benefits and risks have been subject to increased public and government scrutiny, highlighting the need for stronger…

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Zero Trust (ZT) is an “evolving set of cybersecurity paradigms that move defenses from static, network-based perimeters to focus on users, assets, and resources.” Unlike a traditional perimeter-based network security…

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Operating system (OS) command injection vulnerabilities are a preventable class of vulnerability in software products. Software manufacturers can eliminate them at the source by taking a secure by design approach.…

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Governments are under more pressure to secure the election process than ever before. Disinformation can spread like wildfire amidst the endless back and forth of cyberespionage campaigns from other nation…

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Secret Service offer various programs and resources focused on preparedness and prevention across multiple domains. The U.S. Secret Service National Threat…

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In May 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14028, Improving the nation’s Cybersecurity, which makes a significant contribution towards the modernization of cybersecurity defenses by protecting federal networks, improving information-sharing…

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