We are pleased that the federal government has awakened to the seriousness and broad scope of Cyber Security threats and is preparing a policy on this matter.
2009 issue 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Commissioner Bud Mercer
BY CLIVE ADDY
Assistant Commissioner Bud Mercer, Chief Operating Officer of the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit, has an enormous task to prepare security for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
BY ANDRÉ FECTEAU
Vancouver's emergency teams will have to be ready for anything. Dr Jack Taunton, chief medical officer for VANOC, is mandated with the challenge preventing the event from disrupting the daily medical service of Vancouverites.
BY JACQUES BRUNELLE
Uniformed volunteers contribute to the security of major Canadian airports.
BY FRONTLINE STAFF
The Red Cross Disaster Management Team immediately swung into action.
BY VINCE DUNN
Two important size-up strategies for directing a fire operation.
BY EDWARD VINCIGUERRA
Public transportation systems are potential targets for terrorist attack. Simulation aids dispersion assessment.
BY ANGELA GENDRON
The term Islamo-fascism has come to denote intolerant if not fanatical actions and behaviour. The reluctance of mainstream Muslims to condemn these activities and behaviour may stem from ambiguities and divisions within Islam.
BY PETER AVIS
This vast, continent-wide network of land, sea, air, and cybernetic interconnections weaves through each pillar of our democracy. From a national security perspective, the gateway and corridor system of systems is a purely strategic notion.
Mitrovica is a thorn in the side of both the newly sovereign Kosovo Assembly and the international community.
BY FRONTLINE STAFF
Managing risk in today's new world of cyber crime.
BY DAVID GEWIRTZ
It's not what you know, or even who you know, it's who knows you.
One Last Thing
BY SCOTT NEWARK
It could get us killed one day.
