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Explains the purpose and goals of the Know2Protect campaign, as well as the role of DHS in combatting online child sexual exploitation and abuse.

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Harmonization of Cyber Incident Reporting to the Federal Government

This report outlines a series of actionable recommendations on how the federal government can streamline and harmonize the reporting of cyber incidents to better protect the nation’s critical infrastructure.

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It’s Going to Be World Changing

Technologically Speaking sits down with Dr. Ann Cox, technical lead and subject matter expert in Cybersecurity and Quantum Information Science (QIS) at S&T. QIS, a disruptive phenomenon, is going to be like cell phones or the internet, according to Dr. Cox. She speaks with host Deepak Saini about the many ways that QIS is already affecting our world, and how S&T is preparing for the opportunities and challenges that QIS will bring in the future. From solving problems like limitations in MRIs, to changing the way governments secure their data—QIS will change the world. 

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DHS Cyber Hygiene Assessment FAQ

DHS Cyber Hygiene Assessment Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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IQT

IQT is the independent, non-profit strategic investor for the CIA and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community – including DHS.

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2017 NTTX Situation Manual

This exercise is a part of a two-day event including seminars/workshops and a tabletop exercise (TTX) geared toward examining issues related to cybersecurity impacting physical infrastructure systems on college and university campuses. The TTX portion of the event consists of a scenario-driven, facilitated discussion and is designed to examine roles, responsibilities, authorities, and capabilities to enhance the resilience of institutions of higher education.

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Cybersecurity / Information Analysis R&D

S&T conducts and supports research, development, test and evaluation, and the transition of advanced cybersecurity and information assurance technologies to secure the nation’s current and future cyber and critical infrastructures. 

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S&T TDoS Fact Sheet

The public voice network has become the target of many attacks, including Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS), robocalls (automated telephone calls), SWATing (anonymously filing police reports to provoke a police raid) and bomb threats. TDoS is a flood of malicious inbound calls that target public-safety response systems such as 911. The Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Distributed Denial of Service Defense (DDoSD) is working to shift the advantage from a DDoS attacker to the network administrator by developing the capability to authenticate callers and detect fraudulent call spoofing.

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S&T Mobile Device Security Study

Mandated by the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, the “Study on Mobile Device Security” relied on significant input from mobile industry vendors, carriers, service providers and academic researchers.

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Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk & Resilience Policy

The Office of Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk and Resilience Policy (CIRR) leads the development of cybersecurity, technology, and infrastructure policy and strategy for the Department.