We at Homeland Security Today have once again reached out to our Editorial Board, columnists, and community of subject-matter experts to ask for their assessment of the threats facing the nation in ...

We at Homeland Security Today have once again reached out to our Editorial Board, columnists, and community of subject-matter experts to ask for their assessment of the threats facing the nation in ...

President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order aimed at preventing the physical entry of individuals crossing the southern U.S. border illegally.

President Trump signing a bill in the Oval Office. (Photo: official White House photo by Shealah Craighead, courtesy of the National Archives.) Remember the term of political art “extreme vetting” ...

As we enter 2025, homeland security professionals face an increasingly complex and evolving threat landscape. While the following are just three of many pressing challenges, they highlight the ...

Last year, the United States got its first real exposure to the threat of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and the reality that the U.S. is woefully incapable of handling this threat currently. The ...

Terrorism remains a persistent threat to the United States both domestically and across the globe. The threat spectrum remains diverse with threat actors from both domestic and foreign sources, as ...

One of the greatest security threats to the homeland is from insiders. This threat is one of the most difficult because it manifests from within an organization despite the typical presence of a ...

The original 13 countries will be expanded by many more under Trump's latest iteration of the "travel restrictions" policy he'll bring back early this year. (Graphic: CIS) Not so long ago, political ...

In December 2024, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new initiative to enhance their collaboration through technology and data ...

Over the past 12 months, we have seen significant changes to the landscape of threat actors across the Middle East with compounding impacts on U.S. domestic and international security. The Israel-Iran ...

TSA officers prevented this gun from getting through the security checkpoint at Norfolk International Airport on Jan. 24. (TSA photo) A Virginia Beach, Va., woman was stopped at the Norfolk ...