Disaster Recovery

A rapid DNA identification technology developed by the US Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has recently been used to...

Big Data and Open data and analytics have become fundamental tools in disaster preparedness, experts say. But public officials aren't using them enough. Lucy Jones,...

Technological solutions by themselves are useful, but their real value is found when they complement one another. A wide array of homeland security technologies...

Protecting critical infrastructure isn’t just about preventing malicious attacks, but also mitigating the damage of natural disasters. Transportation infrastructure such as subway tunnels are...

The issue of continuity during disasterous events is keeping authorities everywhere constantly busy, as it is unthinkable that a municipal body would stop from...

Twenty two year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, has been ordered to pay more than $101 million in reparations to his victims....

Is an extensive cyber attack expected again? The Ukrainian cyber security firm, ISSP, recently announced that it may have detected a new computer virus...

Earthquakes, natural disasters, floods or snow storms, fires, cyber attacks, damaged databases. All these could happen to any organization, and it's no secret that...

A new, easy-to-carry water purifier that could give Marines and first-responders access to clean water wherever they go has successfully completed its first operational...

Flying cameras help teams assess damage, search for survivors and clear roads following earthquake in Ludian, Yunnan, China. Disaster response team incorporates aerial technology into...

It’s a world problem even in very developed countries including Israel and the authorities are not doing enough to solve it. The United Nations...

The Israeli Army must be put in charge of operations during cyber-attack emergencies, and in order to do that the IDF must establish a...

לעברית לחץ כאן . Can a country be ready for threats from space? this issue has been brought up following the "close" passage of an asteroid...

The US Air National Guard has deployed medium-altitude drones to help airlift and search-and-rescue units find victims in the hurricane disaster-stricken areas. The Guard...

Following the recent storm the MDA (Magen David Adom, an Israeli medical emergency service) intends to acquire snow-plowing kits to be installed on the...

Hurricane Matthew was one of the first operational uses of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) HURREVAC-eXtended (HV-X)...

Israel is not prepared in any way to handle a disaster caused by the hit of an asteroid. European experts say that while Israel is...

What were the major trends in the global cyberspace during 2017? According to a report by Clear Sky Cyber Security, the main attacks were...

  In last three years the world experienced three huge disasters. The first, in January 2010, was a strong earthquake in Haiti which caused the...

US military taps advanced technology to save lives. The U.S. Southern Command’s Science, Technology and Experimentation division showed off GeoSHAPE. This tool would have been...

The United States government, like all of us, is trying to save a little cash and make its day-to-day operations a little more efficient. In...

According to Internews Europe, a report on the Japanese earthquake published recently shows that:  “Japan’s highly advanced early warning system proved key in saving lives,...