Homeland Security
Table of content
Introduction ———————————————————————– page 3
Cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency—————————- page 3-4
Customs and borders protection ———————————————– page 4-6
Federal emergency management agency————————————– page 6-7
Transport security administration———————————————– page 7-8
U.S Citizenship and immigration service————————————– page 8-9
Federal law enforcement training center————————————– page 9-10
U.S. immigration and customs Enforcement——————————— page 10-11
Conclusion ———————————————————————– page 12
Homeland Security
Introduction
Security is a significant concern for every individual and the nations at large globally. Every individual needs to be safe, and the nation’s main objective is to ensure its citizens’ safety. The article will look at annotated webography on homeland security. The paper will look at various websites on how they talk about multiple organs dealing with security matters.
Cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency
This website gives detailed information and roles of cybersecurity and infrastructure security agencies. The website states that the CISA forms part of homeland security divisions, aiming to safeguard the internet infrastructure and improve its resilience and security.
The website’s information also indicates how cybersecurity and infrastructure security agencies regularly identify the infrastructural threats and assess them to get a proper security measure. It mentions that the organization does get involved in consultations with both the federal government and some private sectors, which provide tools that assist in cybersecurity. The organization also consults other private industries such as the threat analysis department and incidence response agencies across all the government websites to enhance homeland security.
From the website, cybersecurity and infrastructure agency also enhances defenses and improvements through forming partnerships with both public and private sectors. The websites indicate that the organization’s tools use coordination and assistance, which reach country-wide to the respective partners for developing emergency communication. It states that the organization emphasized eradicating infrastructure threats, which may originate from natural disasters, attacks from terrorists, cyber warfare, and other human beings’ threats.
The website also gives information about the organization’s branch called the risk assessment center, which identifies and analyses threats to infrastructure from the most severe threat to the least effective from which it can formulate the eradication measures. The group also has the responsibility of looking deeply into threats that may have a more significant impact on the government and private sector elements, which are essential to society’s functions.
Strengths and weaknesses of the website
One of the areas that this website performs best includes easily accessible individuals who seek to get information about the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency hence creating public awareness. The website is also well protected consequently not easily attacked by individuals with negative attitudes. One noted weakness is its inability to identify genuine researchers and malicious motives; hence the secrets may soon be out posing security threats.
Customs and borders protection
The website talks about customs and border protection in the United States of America. It indicates that the U.S customs have border protection, which is fundamental in responding to disaster management and outbreaks that may affect a larger population. The organization works closely with the homeland security department in ensuring the support of the government’s effort in slowing down or eradicating occurrences of the disasters such as the covid-19 outbreak. The webpage also advises the general public on where to get the facts about certain disasters which require critical care and maintenance.
The website also gives the organization’s priorities as follows; counter-terrorism by detecting, anticipating, and disrupting the terrorists’ threats and weapons that they are likely to use. and what the terrorists are potential to do so that they can protect the economy and the people of the U.S. They also combat transnational crime through crime detection, deterring and disrupting transitional organized which are likely to threaten security threats of the U.S. border protection is another area that the organization has to do. The protection ranges from land, water, and air which the organization protects against threats such as illegal entry and other illicit activities that may cause some harm to the citizens. The website also indicates that the organization looks into factors that facilitate trade and foster revenue protection by enacting laws that support such activities. According to the website, Lawful travel facilitation by the organization enhances the transformation of traveling activities, forming part of the organization’s priorities. The organization enhances this by detecting the threats and intercepting them before and during the entry into the ports.
Strengths and weaknesses of the website
This website’s strengths involve availing necessary information of protecting the borders, hence making everyone aware of the respective urgencies to report to whenever one witnesses any suspected illegal entry, which can cause security threats. The website provides communication procedures for reaching the people in charge to write an unlawful entry. However, the website has weaknesses as it may give a clue to terrorists of which site to hack when discharging their duties to prevent the authorities from trapping them. Such cases are threats to national security.
Federal emergency management agency
The website talks about federal emergency management agencies. The web page defines the federal emergency management agency as the federal government’s central agency for emergency planning, making preparations, investigations, responding, and recovery solutions. It states that the organization works closely with the state and local government authorities to offer guidance and training opportunities to respond to emergencies. According to the website, the federal emergency management agency accumulates resources that they deploy during the catastrophic disaster to ensure the crisis’s containment measures. The organization coordinates these activities to provide life and property protection and gives necessary assistance for recovery and after the disaster.
The website talks about some organizations within federal emergency management agencies. The organizations here includes U.S. Fire Administration, National Fire Academy, the Federal Insurance Administration, and the Emergency Management Institute, which offers professional courses that aim to provide the nation’s emergency management skills to managers and individuals.
According to the website, Federal Emergency Management Agency has several programs, including response to recovery from a disaster that may be natural or caused by man, emergency management planning, plan for managing floods, planning for hazardous disasters and response and dynamic safety program. From the information extracted from the website, the entire federal emergency management agency reports directly to the white house, making the agency effective. The funds that they use in managing disaster come from the president’s disaster relief fund.
Strengths and weaknesses of the website
Its strength relies on its ability to provide sufficient information regarding federal emergency management agency which provides the reader with necessary information to follow when faced with challenges that requires organization’s support. Availing the sources of funds and providing detailed information on the website becomes a weakness since the terrorists may use the same information and the individuals concerned to bring the organization down preventing them from adequately discharging their duties.
Transport security administration
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2017&q=transport+security+administration&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5.
The website gives detailed information about the transport security administration as it works closely with the homeland security. It indicates that the transport security administration aims at strengthening the security of the nation in the transport sector and at the same time enhances freedom of movement for people and the commodities. According to the webpage, transport security administration enhances security in the national airports and ensures availability of federal workforce to screen all screen passengers and luggage.
The information from the website also indicates that in today’s airports, transport security administration do vet every passenger who gets into and out of United States and even the passengers within the country through secure plight program which forms part of their arms. The organization through the website information, employ the use of recent innovations in technology and ensure they use the technology which keeps them ahead of threats that may surround their activities.
Strengths and weaknesses of the website
The website is very rich in its information on the transport security administration. The strength of the website lies on the safety of the information and few accessibility procedures making the individuals who view the site aware of their safety during travel and what to expect even before visiting the airports. However, accessibility of the information also forms parts of the weakness of the website as the terrorists will know the types of technologies to apply and the type of the people in the department hence using better technologies which targets the individuals in charge.
U.S citizenship and immigration service
The website above talks about United States citizenship and immigration service as a department of homeland security. It indicates functions of the organization together with the sources of funds which it utilizes in discharging its duties. According to the website, some of the functions of the organization include the following; adjudication and naturalization petitions of immigrants, looks into the consideration of the refugees within the nation, concern with humanitarian and international. It also looks at a range of services which relate to immigration.
According to the website, sources of funds of United States citizenship and immigration service mainly come from fees which the law mandates them to charge from immigration services before the individual can get access to the country. The funds enable the organization to plan for its annual badness which does pass before the congress for approval annually.
Strengths and weaknesses of the website
The website is one of the best in provision of information. The strength here involves providing detailed definition of the organization, its roles and ways of acquiring funds which makes the readers aware of what services to expect from the organization and the reason as to why they should pay money when requested to do so. It also sheds more light on how to acquire the necessary documents so as to get into the country hence preventing unnecessary explanations by the officers at the check of points. Even thought the site looks to have strong network connectivity, one noted weakness is the illegal users who access the information since the accessibility of the website can occur anywhere. These illegal users who access the site may use the information to plan for the attack of the organization.
Federal law enforcement training centre
The websites talks about federal law enforcement training centre as part of homeland security program. According to the website, federal law enforcement training centre provides training opportunities to individuals who need to pursue career to become law enforcement professionals so as to enhance their skills in accepting responsibilities due to them safely and proficiently. The organization is the best institution according to the website in providing the training for more than fore decades now. The skills provided such as use of firearms, driving, tactics that are useful in investigations and legal training which makes the defense forces to be one of the strongest in the world if not the best.
According to the website, the organization still looks for resources that can be beneficial to the national audience of law and professions who administer justice. The organization advocates to providing a link to useful resources that the good training academies produce with an aim of making them available to all officers in the country.
Strengths and weaknesses of the website
Notable strength of the site is the availability of the information on the procedures and ways of accessing the law enforcement training institutions which makes it easy for whoever dreams of furthering skills in law enforcement. The individual may take up the opportunity and makes the career better by getting the information on where to apply and how to apply for the training through the website. As usual, the strangers with ill motives too may apply and form part of training after getting the information through the website and there after part ways and plans for the attack having known the weaknesses during training.
U.S. immigration and customs Enforcement
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2017&q=U.S+immigration+and+customs+enforcement&btnG=.
The website talks about the United States immigration and customs enforcement giving its functions and how the organization manages to execute its duties among other areas in collaboration with both public and private sectors. It states that the mission of the organization is to ensure safety of Americans from problems such as crimes that may cross the borders as well as illegal immigration which may threaten national security and creates fear among the public.
The websites goes further and explains how the organization discharges its duties as it states that enhancement of more federal statutes and focusing on smart immigration provides the organization with a better chance of protecting its borders. The organization also prevents attacks from the terrorists and looks for better ways of combating the illegal movement of people and the commodities. Other functions of the body according to the website include investigating the illegal movements of goods and people; it also reports customs violation or immigration and engages the victims of immigration crime.
Strengths and weaknesses of the website
The website provides the readers with the best information about the whole organization making the readers aware of what steps to take at every given time when dealing with immigrations and customs enforcement. Other strength is that the site provides a wide range of functions of the organization hence contributing to education of members on the roles of this organ. The website’s weakness however occurs in its inability to prevent illegal users from accessing the site which poses security threats
Conclusion
Every website above has its strengths and weaknesses. The information provided above help in providing necessary information on the security agencies, their roles and other necessary information that may help the readers to gain the skills required and know what how to handle certain security threats. It is important for every organ to provide strict security measures in their website especially in accessing the confidential information so as to reduce security threats in all the sectors.