Infragard East Tennessee Alliance

Lone Wolf Offender Threat March 17, 2011 - The “lone wolf” terrorist attacking poorly-defended targets now poses a bigger threat to the West than sophisticated plots, experts. Although an individual working alone has little chance of pulling off an attack of the magnitude of September 11 2001, a lone operator’s isolation could make him practically undetectable right up to the moment when he... Read more

Stuxnet January 27, 2011 – Jennifer Hawley, CyberSecurity Analyst at Nuclear Fuel Services, presented a look at the Stuxnet worm whose target is the interruption to specific industrial control systems. ... Read more

Steganography October 14, 2010 – In this presentation, Kibbee Streetman traces the development of covert communications from ancient Greece, through two World Wars, into the Digital Age where technology can be used by spies criminals, terrorists and good fols as well. ... Read more

The FBI’s Top Eight Priorities – Tri-Cities October 6, 2010 – To protect and defend the United States against terrorism and foreign intelligence attacks is the primary goal of the FBI. At the initial meeting of InfraGard in the Tri-Cities area, SAIC Rick Lambert of the Knoxville field office presented an overview of the top eight priorities of the... Read more

America’s Waterway Watch. August 14, 2010 – America’s Waterway Watch is a program of the United States Coast Guard and its Reserve and Auxiliary components to encourage members of the public to be on the alert for suspicious behavior by boaters. In his presentation Jason Caudill’s goal is to acquaint is with the activities of the Auxiliary... Read more

National Safe Skies Alliance December 10, 2009 – Scott Broyles, President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Safe Skies Alliance describes their work as a federally funded non-profit organization and how they go about making a distinctive impact by evaluating innovative solutions aimed at improving aviation security.  To date Safe Skies has conducted over 200 projects,... Read more

eDiscovery – Nowhere to Hide August 13, 2009 – Electronic Discovery is the process of collecting, preserving, processing, and producing electronic information in litigation. On December 1st, 2006, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were updated to include (expect) electronic information to be produced in litigation when in Federal Court. These rules placed electronic information at the same level of importance... Read more

Civil Air Partol Briefing December 11, 2008 – The Civil Air Patrol (CAP), according to Wikipedia, is the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). While the CAP is sponsored by the Air Force, it is not an operating reserve component under the Air Force or the federal government. It performs three congressionally assigned key... Read more

CARRI August 14, 2008 – With the support of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, CARRI is a groundbreaking program being led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in conjunction with a variety of other federal, regional, state and local partners. The goal of CARRI is to help develop and then share critical... Read more

Incident_Handling April 10, 2008 – Computer viruses, worms, denial of service attacks, equipment failures, vandalism, theft and other unwelcome events can send your computer services staff scrambling and cause a variety of problems for your user community. Even the least of these situations can be a distraction for your staff. The most severe can provide an... Read more