The GSN 2015 Digital Yearbook

National Programs and Protection Directorate.
Global spending also parallels the DHS spending raise.
A new market research report, “Global Homeland Security
and Emergency Management Market, 2013–2018”,
published by MarketsandMarkets is expected to reach
$544.02 Billion by 2018. Unfortunately, those numbers
could go even higher if there are more incidents similar to
what happened in Paris, Mali, and San Bernardino, CA.
GSN: What area/issue pending trends do you
see as priorities for the homeland security
community?
CB: Counterterrorism and the counter CBRNE (chemical
, biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) mission
will always be fundamental to homeland planning and
spending. Those are the most catastrophic threats. In
addition to CBRNE DHS has assumed more and more of a
leadership role in cybersecurity derived from both Presidential
mandates and congressional legislation.
Cybersecurity is indeed a top priority as government agencies
and mega corporations experience more data breaches
with each passing year. I recently published an article
in The Federal Times on Key homeland security priorities
to watch in 2016 (http://www.federaltimes.com/story/
government/dhs/blog/2015/12/15/key-homeland-securitypriorities-watch-2016/77368604/)
My thoughts in regards
to cybersecurity verbatim:
“The 2015 DHS budget directed more than $1.25 billion
to cybersecurity and that trend will continue in 2016.
Cybersecurity and IT have moved to the forefront since
DHS’s inception as we have become a more interconnected
world. New legislation pending in Congress formalizes
the increased DHS role in public/private partnering.
New legislation also would update the 12-year-old Federal
Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and delineate
DHS’s role in guarding government networks and
websites.
A priority for 2016 will be to accelerate rollout of
Einstein III Accelerated (E3A), the latest phase of DHS’s
automated network-security correcting systems. DHS has
established memoranda of agreement with 55 federal
agencies to implement Einstein to provide horizon scanning
and automated monitoring, detection, and remediation
of government networks. DHS is also planning for
new cyber technologies that provide advanced defense of
network framework layers, including authentication, better
encryption, biometrics, and data analytical tools”.
GSN: What future areas of homeland security
interest would you advise companies to explore?
CB: The key word really is “future” and it is already
around the corner with the Internet of Things (IoT).
Recently both the FBI and DHS issued warnings about IoT
and pending threats. The reality is that we have become
immersed in a new digital era comprised of more than 50
billion interfaced devices. Anything connected is vulnerable.
Expect significant investments in smart cities, smart
homes, smart businesses, and smart governments in the
next decade. For the security community this conveys
opportunities in developing and integrating new sensors
for threat detection, surveillance, predictive data analytics,
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