Learning Materials from the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security
February 18, 2020, Annual CHDS Alumni APEX Workshop, Monterey, CA. Katelyn Mason and Sam Korta discuss the importance of how state and non-state actors manipulate real world events to propagate narratives that influence and...
Play the audio: How is it that fringe stories and counterfeit narratives get traction, enter mainstream media, and are accepted as fact? Intelligence expert Samantha Korta (Masters 1605/1606 aka 1611) studied information laundering to...
Listen to audio: Episode 006. In this episode, we’re taking a look at Russia’s social media war against the United States, assault on our democracy, and some options our government may use to combat...
Video presentation at the 2018 APEX workshop (Alumni Professional Exchange). Mike Ananny, Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, led a session titled “Fake News: A Challenge for...
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) has identified and featured a selection of resources associated with primary topics in homeland security or topics particularly relevant to current issues in policy, strategy and organizational management....
Interview — video. Dan Cain. Public health and other agencies need situational awareness to respond effectively to dangerous situations. Traditional means of obtaining this information requires significant time and personnel. Research demonstrates that social...
The Annual HD/HS Education Summit was held in Burlington, Massachusetts on September 26-28 2013. The theme of the 2013 event was: Developing an Adaptive Homeland Security Environment Presentations included the following. University and Agency Partnership...
Interview — video. William Sweeney. The Internet and Web 2.0 technologies have significantly reduced the need for face-to face human contact historically associated with terrorist recruitment, instead allowing direct and dynamic contact between operatives...
Interview — video. John Lenkart. Social networking media introduces a new set of vulnerabilities to protecting an organization’s sensitive information. Adversaries are actively targeting U.S. industry to acquire trade secrets to undercut U.S. business...
Report — text. Michael Byrne. On June 30 and July 1, 2009 in Monterey, CA, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Emergency Communications...