The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced today it has selected Oshkosh to supply MRAP All Terrain Vehicles (M-ATV) for its fighting forces. Oshkosh has received an initial delivery order from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) for 2 ...
Since the events of 9/11, particularly following the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, much attention has been paid to the use of probabilistic or quantitative risk analysis methods for the purposes of informing security investment decisions. The debate on the appropriateness of these ...
I recently had a discussion with someone about how to do asset valuation for risk assessments. It was a good discussion that prompted me to share with you. The whole concept of asset valuation (as it exists for information security) is predicated on the assumption that acquisition cost is a good con ...
Residual risk is like the dirt on the floor that cannot be picked up by the broom and dustpan. Rather than pursue residual risk down to the last iota, it is swept aside and will probably not be noticed. - From CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor All-In-One Study Guide
Counterfeiting is a $ 200 billion global problem. Combating it takes persistence and ingenuity…. Italy: Hotline Tips Lead to Record Haul of Counterfeit Pesticides Following hotline tip-offs, Italian police have seized over 120 tones of counterfeit pesticides – the European Union’s biggest haul – in ...
Via the MailOnline - “Paul Blunt of the East Bedfordshire School Sports Partnership, which ran the event, said the ‘ultimate fear’ was that a child could be abducted. He said: ‘If we let parents into the school they would have been free to roam the grounds. All unsupervised adults must be kept away ...
The funerals of the Metro crash victims took place this week in the Washington D.C. metro area. What makes it all the more tragic, is the fact that these poor people died needlessly. Metro Trasit should never have allowed the aging train cars to be used after being warned three years ago that they w ...
BAE Systems has been awarded $124.8 million in U.S. Army contracts to reset, upgrade and maintain M113 vehicles. Several contracts awarded to the company by the U.S. military cover repairs and improvements on the combat-proven infantry vehicles. Specifically, awards include: $87.7 million for the re ...
TRAVEL ADVICE If you need to travel to these hot spots, I would strongly suggest you skim through the list and serve yourself to some timely and actionable security information…. http://tinyurl.com/m7kwch Posted in Security Awareness, Travel Security Tagged: Risk Assessment, Security Awareness, Trav ...
LaBarge has been awarded a $2.3 million contract from Northrop Grumman to continue to produce electronic equipment for the AN/AAQ-24(V) Directional Infrared Countermeasure (DIRCM) system. LaBarge has worked on the program for more than a decade. The only such aircraft protection system currently in ...
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