National Security Agency

The topic of constitutional rights has long been a hot button that brings out fierce opinions and conflict. One specific topic that draws more attention than the others is the fourth amendment, or the protection from illegal search and seizure. This protection is fiercely enforced in the physical realm, but is grossly overlooked and abused in the digital by means of hacking and data collection requests. One instance of this is the longstanding practice of data turnover orders by the government…

Intelligence (SIGINT) could have one based on Cellular Telephone intercepts or other communications. Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) could have one based on persistent observations from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or a static observation from National Technical Means (NTM) or commercial satellites. Regardless of the origination of the assumption, we should be able to use it to aid us in the implementation and application of advanced analytics and collection methodologies. In today’s…

posture that would offer the United States the security needed in the event of an escalated war.…

I never quite understood the importance of privacy or political correctness as a child. The quick-witted banter that I had developed between friends really had no filter. I could say what I wanted, and how I wanted to say it without fear of ramifications, and my friends did the same. They were just words to us; they had little meaning, and if a conflict did erupt, it quickly fizzled out. However, the world changes, culture changes, ideas change, and with that so do freedoms. This is how my…

“The term national security refers to the safeguarding of a people, territory, and way of life” (Jordan, Taylor, and Mazarr 14). Today’s National Security Agency is an extremely powerful and thoughtful organization that’s mission is to keep Americans, and the country free of harm. The supporters of this organization feel the need for increased security in the United States, to keep younger generations safe. On the other hand, those who are against the need for more security believe that the…

In many Americans eyes Edward Snowden can be seen as much as a traitor than a hero. Thirty year old Edward Snowden a former National Security Association contractor revealed the works of illegal government programs. The documents revealed detailed secret NSA programs and capabilities that have been and continued to be used to collect and store personal communications both within the United States and abroad. Snowden traveled from his homeland of Hawaii to Honk Kong to leak the documents to…

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established in 1972 by the Computer Security Act of 1987 by redesignating the National Bureau of Standards. In 1998 President Bill Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive 63 which established the United States critical infrastructure program as applicable to computer and information systems. Subsequently, in 2002 the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) replaced the Computer Security Act of 1987 which intended to…

anonymous. No one could unlock that information unless the system detected truly suspicious activity and then a warrant was issued. Otherwise, all unnecessary data was purged from the system after a short period of time. That eliminated clutter for security analysts by focusing solely upon pertinent threats and within a few months of Thin Thread’s implementation it helped the NSA track down key components of the Al Qaeda…

overcome the problem of the alpha male notion to make it work effective. This follows the fact that each agency under the DHS wants to prove superior to the others and thus resulting into wolf packs. The alpha males might display instances of fighting once a rival wolf crosses their path since each agency wants to be a leader rather than a pack member. As a result, the inner fighting between agencies leads to information sharing and cooperation problems. Additionally, the DHS would have the…

government and the private sector raising the level of awareness within management rank and file. As Bayuk location 387 (2012) points out, on-going communication and cooperation between the public and the private sectors will lead to a more resilient national cyber standing. As it stands today, data on cyber breaches and vulnerabilities are kept confidential and locked away. Not realizing how vulnerable various sectors are keeps managers in the dark about the threats facing their enterprise.…