Regional police departments, county sheriffs' departments, and state police totaling more than 240 agencies in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska all share information today through a law enforcement records management system. The FBI and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) are also connected to that system, which is sharing information with the Department of Justice, law enforcement agencies, and the individual states' jail records management system. There is no easy way to track down potential terrorists. One department may hold a key piece of information that another agency needs to make a critical connection. Often, seemingly insignificant facts may combine to provide a clear implication. Identifying potential terrorists is a cross-jurisdictional effort. Combining information from multiple sources is the key. This session will discuss several case study examples of local, state, and federal projects underway designed to track down terrorists and better protect our national security.

What You Will Learn:

• About local, state, and federal information-sharing initiatives in place today, designed for counterterrorism
  
  
  
• The types of technologies used in these case study examples and how they help in counterterrorism efforts
  
  
  
• How the technology within these case study examples can be used within your agency
  
  
  

The National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) is the nation's first strategic plan to improve emergency response communications. Developed by DHS in cooperation with over 150 public and private sector emergency communications officials, it’s designed to drive measurable and sustainable improvements over the next five years consistent with the: National Response Framework; National Incident Management System; National Preparedness Guidelines; and Target Capabilities List. NECP goals, along with these other department strategies, will improve nationwide response efforts and bolster situational awareness, information sharing, and command and control operations. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about how the NECP impacts: Standards and Emerging Communication Technologies; System Life-cycle Planning; Coordinated Federal Activities; Emergency Responder Skills and Capabilities; and Disaster Communications Capabilities.

What You Will Learn:

• About DHS's nationwide vision for emergency communications interoperability in the next five years
  
  
  
• An update on progress made in NECP implementation at all levels of government and in the private sector
  
  
  
• Ways participants can contribute to NECP implementation, and how their partnerships with OEC will achieve the NECP’s vision
  
  
  

Moderator: Paul M. Joyal, Managing Director, Public Safety and Homeland Security Practice, National Strategies, Inc.

A combined and coordinated cyber and military engagement between two sovereign countries is now a reality. The five day war between Russia and Georgia showed how non-governmental and criminal organizations were used to launch a coordinated attack in the months prior to and during the actual conflict.

This session will discuss the origins of the Russian Information Warfare doctrine as developed within the Russian General staff. It will compare and contrast the cyber attacks in Estonia to the sophistication and coordination of the attacks against the Georgian infrastructure as a prelude to war. Details on how the global use of private and criminal structures was used to avoid detection and as attempt to provide deniability to the Russian government’s military and intelligence community. The steps being taken to protect against future attacks will also be outlined.

Mr. Joyal, with over 10 years as a security advisor to Georgia and a Russian intelligence expert, will be joined by a representative of the Georgian government and an senior analyst of the cyber attacks conducted against Georgia.

Terrorism seems to be a new endeavor yet it has been around a long time. People often make mistakes by not learning from history and developing new methodologies to address current challenges. This session addresses a few historical implications to terrorism and the convergence of Information Technology. Discussion will evolve around the development of "Cyber Terrorism" and irrational actors, rogue states, and adversaries intent on aggression against western powers "on the cheap" to influence more powerful nation states to acquiesce to their will. Learn the basic principles of operational, personnel, and physical security and how these security disciplines are vital for convergence into any information technology security program.

What You Will Learn:

• The prevailing threats to IT systems and the best practices to protect them
  
  
  
• About personnel security and physical security objectives and techniques relative to information technology
  
  
  
• Why convergence of other security disciplines is vital to IT security programs
  
  
  

Interrogation is presumed to involve conflict and confrontation, but it doesn't have to. By using a structured, non-confrontational approach, an investigator can obtain a confession without the suspect ever making a denial or protesting his innocence. Moreover, the resulting confession often includes information not revealed during the investigation. The result is a legally-acceptable confession, obtained in a palatable way, benefiting the suspect, the interrogator, and the government/law enforcement agency. This session features videos of the method in practice, law enforcement best practices, and government agency testimonials to illustrate the structure and teaching points specifically applicable to government intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

What You Will Learn:

• Non-confrontational interrogation skills that lead to confessions
  
  
  
• Effective strategies to combat terrorism and criminal activity
  
  
  
• Tools for government and law enforcement professionals to analyze behavior
  
  
  

In the post 9-11 era, the United States has been actively training its first responder community in preparation for response to a possible terrorist attack on our soil. We have spent billions of dollars to train and equip our responders. But are they ready? Have they trained together, or are they unaware of the capabilities of their counterparts from different response disciplines? This course will present a case for cross-training our first responders to meet the many challenges of a terrorist attack. Most of the responder communities are well versed in their own field, but in a real world scenario they will be expected to cross traditional responder roles. These responders need the skill sets to recognize different attack scenarios and indicators and to possess a basic understanding of the equipment in use by other first responders. Cross-training can enhance the level of respect and confidence in those with whom we will be serving. Training across these traditional boundaries can serve to improve the safety of the responders as well as those they protect.

What You Will Learn:

• Benefits of your agency cross-training with other responder agencies
  
  
  
• Specific areas where cross-training will be most beneficial to your agency
  
  
  
• NIMS training compliance for your agency
  
  
  

To respond to ever-increasing safety and security demands without a proportionate increase in resources, the Phoenix Police Department developed and expanded its expertise in evaluating, analyzing, and improving strategic and tactical capabilities and performance. Through effective process development techniques and enhanced interdivision and interagency relationships, PPD regularly determines and meets the needs of the community. The PPD identifies and aligns its objectives, evaluates performance against those objectives, eliminates activities that don’t add value, reallocates existing human and nonhuman resources, and creates the capability to add services without a corresponding increase in resources. This analysis and action, coupled with solid connectivity among process components, creates the foundation for continual improvement and performance excellence.

What You Will Learn:

• Insights on the value of process and system connectivity
  
  
  
• About business techniques to enhance interoperability and information management
  
  
  
• How to define, measure, analyze, and improve safety and security performance
  

Interoperability is an important issue for law enforcement and other public health and safety departments because communication is key during wide-scale emergencies. On September 11, 2001, "interoperability" reared its ugly head at the Pentagon and World Trade Centers. It did so again during Hurricane Katrina. This session will look at what interoperability means to the emergency response community, from the chief to the responder on the street, no matter the discipline. Perceptions and realities will be discussed, as well as on-scene accounts of relationships that make operating on a large scale incident a success or a failure.

What You Will Learn:

• To examine the importance of communications during all hazard, large, and small incidents that occur on a regular basis. This includes working on initial briefings and execution to provide an integrated team capable of immediate response on short and extended events
  
  
  
• To examine the causation of failures and successes during an emergency response based on the ability of multiple agencies/jurisdictions to respond in a coordinated effort
  

In sum total, the private sector has more resources than any government. Even individually, certain corporations can eclipse the capacity of entire federal agencies, e.g. the logistics capability of Wal-Mart. Corporations can be sources of expertise and communications channels to their employees and families. In terms of intelligence, while individual corporations may know little, collectively they arguably know all. Initially stood up with funding from DHS, the International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP) is uniquely focused on the interface between the private sector and the public sector in emergencies and crisis. Hundreds of companies as well as a diversity of international, federal, state and local agencies are active in collaborative efforts hosted by InterCEP. This session brings together insights garnered from these activities, as well as from leaders in public-private collaboration.

What You Will Learn:

• What the private sector potentially "brings to the table" in a partnership with the public sector
  
  
  
• What is expected of the public sector and what the core elements are that sustain effective public-private partnerships on both sides over the long run
  
  
  
• How to incorporate these elements into your strategy and ongoing operations
  
  
  

Securing critical infrastructure has become central to the overall risk management process for organizations as diverse as chemical plants to mass transit systems, seaports, financial service, and health care organizations. This panel looks at the requirements, key considerations, and best practices for ensuring a secure, safe, and reliable physical security information system for such organizations. Attendees will hear from industry experts as well as city planners on practical and real-life examples.

What You Will Learn:

• How to create a common operating picture across your critical infrastructure that allows for rapid situation awareness, management, and real-time resolution
  
  
  
• How to correlate data from multiple security devices and systems to automatically or manually resolve a situation
  
  
  
• About integrating multi-agency and multi-vendor video systems into one real-time view across a city
  

E-discovery is here to stay, imposing additional complexities and costs on organizations struggling to comply, as well as real opportunities to those who take steps to anticipate and get ahead of e-discovery issues. This session provides a common-sense understanding of what e-discovery is and why it matters to your organization. It will then guide you through the steps you can and should take to anticipate how e-discovery demands will impact your organization, and the policies and procedures you should implement to ensure you’re best positioned to respond effectively. Finally, practical guidance on how your organization can secure substantial advantages – in both litigation and cost savings – from your efforts to understand and address e-discovery issues before they arise.

What You Will Learn:

• What "e-discovery" is and how organizations should approach e-discovery issues
  
  
  
• How recent changes to court rules have altered how e-discovery is conducted and ESI collected and exchanged in litigation
  
  
  
• How your organization can anticipate e-discovery issues to achieve maximum cost-effectiveness and efficiency
  
  
  
• How to avoid common pitfalls in e-discovery which can result in costly penalties and defeat in the courtroom
  
  
  
• How e-discovery and information privacy and security relate to and reinforce each other – and why getting this right is so critical