My role at the CINA center puts me in contact with a wide variety of people at DHS and beyond. In any given week, I might talk with frontline operators, analysts, administrators, and leadership at different levels, and my peers and colleagues in the Centers of Excellence (COE) and research communities. These interactions are priceless…
Director’s Blog: April 2021
The threat landscape facing our nation and world is complex, varied, and dynamic. We are actively dealing with a global pandemic, mass shootings, foreign and domestic terrorism, climate change, supply chain disruptions, organized criminal activity, and adversarial nation states. From deliberate acts like terrorism, to inadvertent events like large ships drifting sideways in critical shipping…
Director’s Blog: July 2021
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The DHS Centers of Excellence Summit was held the week of May 17-21, 2021. In a completely virtual format, the summit had a record number of registrants (over 1,200) including government, law enforcement at all levels, academia, and 65 different industry representatives, 61 speakers to include Secretary Mayorkas, 20 showcase booths, and 135 students from…
GMU Researchers Help DHS Fight Cybercrime
The Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center, a Department of Homeland Security S&T Center of Excellence, supports the agency with research and tools for fighting cybercrime. Jim Jones, CINA’s director, details how researchers are working to intercept cybercriminals and educate a new generation of cybersecurity professionals. Listen to the podcast below:
Director’s Blog: January 2021
I began serving as CINA Director one year ago, and the other day was asked what I had learned in that first year. It turns out that fighting Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) is hard. This won’t be a surprise to most of you reading this, but spending time closer to the problem showed me how dynamic,…