Cyber ShockWave exposed missing links in U.S. security
(Government Computer News, Mar 10, 2010)
By Michael Chertoff
In mid-February the Bipartisan Policy Council hosted Cyber ShockWave, a simulation of how our nation might respond to a catastrophic cyber event. The simulation was conducted through the lens of a notional National Security Council (NSC) meeting convened to advise the president on how the federal government should respond to the crisis and what the president should communicate to the American people to reassure them.
Obama Says He's Committed to Immigration Overhaul
(New York Times, Mar 12, 2010)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken. What remains unclear is whether Congress will send him a bill this year.
Obama lobbied on black unemployment, immigration
(Washington Post, Mar 11, 2010)
By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday faced pressure to help create jobs in African-American communities and deliver an immigration overhaul even as he tried to push healthcare reform across the finish line.
Obama Links Immigration Overhaul in 2010 to G.O.P. Backing
(New York Times, Mar 11, 2010)
By Julia Preston
President Obama said Thursday that he would proceed with an overhaul of the immigration system this year if he could attract substantial Republican support. But a leading Republican who supports an overhaul said an immigration bill could not go forward if the president used a legislative shortcut sidestepping Republicans to pass his health care bill.
Senators give Obama a bipartisan plan on immigration
(Los Angeles Times, Mar 12, 2010)
By Peter Nicholas
Reporting from Washington - A pair of influential senators presented President Obama with a three-page blueprint for a bipartisan agreement to overhaul the nation's immigration system, but the proposal's viability is threatened by politics surrounding the healthcare debate.
Lindsey Graham: Immigration reform in peril
(Politico, Mar 12, 2010)
By Josh Gerstein
A pair of White House meetings Thursday designed to chart a path forward for immigration reform instead spotlighted the daunting obstacles ahead — and showed why many Capitol Hill insiders believe it’s quite unlikely an immigration bill will happen this year.
Criminals, Persons of Interest have Applied for TWIC
(Homeland Security Today, Mar 11, 2010)
By Anthony L. Kimery
There have been eight instances in which individuals have attempted to use fraudulent TWIC cards.
Burgeoning threats sees Asia Pacific market growth
(ThirdFactor, Mar 11, 2010)
Frost & Sullivan has released a new report projecting the Asia Pacific region to see major growth in the biometrics industry due to an increasing number of security threats seen recently. The 2009 revenues in the biometrics market for the Asia Pacific region were over $165 million, but Frost & Sullivan project that number to hit $700.7 million by 2015.
Chidambaram takes National Crime Records Bureau to task
(Times of India, Mar 12, 2010)
NEW DELHI: Union home minister P Chidambaram on Thursday took the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to task for delaying the ministry's pet project of creating a national databank of crime and criminals and their biometric profiles and asked it to do it "efficiently and in time".
