A Cybersecurity Primer
This self-study course discusses the fundamentals of cybersecurity in a broad overview. It attempts to address cybersecurity in layman’s terms to give students a basic …
Infrastructure & Transportation Security
Ransomware
A collection of reports that focus on ransomware, which is “a form of malware designed to encrypt files on a device, rendering any files and …
Supply Chain Resilience
This self-study course provides learners with a conceptual framing of supply chain behavior, risk, sources of resilience, and one method for self-assessing the risk and …
Homeland Security Affairs – April 2021 Issue
The issue features an essay analyzing how intentional violent attacks complicate response to mass casualty incidents (MCIs), a research article examining the leadership skills required …
Revitalizing Maritime Security: Is Smart the Next Element?
NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Carl Makins (MA1803/1804), Sergeant at the Metro Bomb Squad in the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, talks about Project Seahawk, a multiagency program …
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Left in the Dark: Power Outages in an Interconnected World
Kate Konschnik, Director of the Climate & Energy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University and is a Senior Lecturing …
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The Human-Machine Interface: Promise and Peril
The human-machine interface found in today’s complex machines introduces unprecedented opportunities for promise and peril. Jackie Lindsey (Masters 1601), currently the Cabinet Secretary at the …
Improving School Bus Transportation Safety
NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Ryan Whitehead talks about the correlation between his thesis research and his position as a Transportation Security Inspector with the Transportation Security …
Growth of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research
This module provides an overview of the growth of multi-disciplinary scientific research and how that research applies to defense and infrastructure rapid technological advancement. open …
Challenges in Infrastructure Funding
This module provides a roadmap to understanding trends that have led to underfunding of infrastructure maintenance, potential impacts to the nation’s critical infrastructure systems, and …
Critical Infrastructure Higher Education Initiative
The Critical Infrastructure Higher Education Initiative (CI HEI) was a highly successful five year partnership between the Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS) …
Aging and Failing Infrastructure
This module provides a roadmap to understanding trends that lead to infrastructure failure, and potential impacts to the nation’s critical infrastructure systems. open in new …