“Leaders get recognized for their ability to mitigate problems and choose effective strategies. The same is true for security… The status quo or yesterday’s success is never good enough.”
“Security is about enabling a mission. Business leaders are able to take our tools and apply them to a variety of settings to create success. Our job is to create an environment of success for the enterprise. It is not what we do, rather, it is how we enable the enterprise to achieve its goals,” shares Frank Taylor, Vice President and Chief Security Officer for The General Electric Company. It is important to note that as you read this, one of America’s (not just security’s) greatest leaders and thinkers will have retired, again.
The nation’s critical infrastructure is coming under increased pressure to protect their vital systems and assets from outside cyber threats as the number of attacks increase and stronger regulations are imposed.
They are coming back. What, in the old days, were trolley cars in urban areas are now light rail systems serving metro areas while complementing buses, trains and other transit services.
A slang term for hydraulic fracturing. Fracking refers to the procedure of creating fractures in rocks and rock formations by injecting fluid into cracks to force them to open further.
The U.S. Coast Guard employs a three-tiered system of maritime security levels (commonly called MARSEC), designed to easily communicate pre-planned scalable responses for credible threats.
The Port of Tacoma is a significant economic engine, where double-digit growth in both imports and exports propelled a 16 percent gain in its 2012 container volumes. Breakbulk cargo volumes ended 68 percent higher for the year.
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