Critical Releases in Homeland Security: July 14, 2010

"This 13th report of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board (GNEB) describes the principal chronic environmental issues that plague the border region today. The report also identifies specific immediate and medium-term actions that the federal government and other key partners in the region can take to address these problems." GNEB puts "forward a total of 63 recommendations in eight separate chapters: (1) climate impacts, adaptation, and mitigation; (2) air quality; (3) renewable energy; (4) water; (5) solid and hazardous waste; (6) emergency response and planning; (7) habitat and biodiversity conservation; and (8) institutional mechanisms."

"Cyberspace -- the interdependent network of information technology components that underpins many of our communications -- is a crucial component of the Nation's critical infrastructure. We use cyberspace to exchange information, buy and sell products and services, and enable many online transactions across a wide range of sectors, both nationally and internationally. As a result, a secure cyberspace is critical to the health of our economy and to the security of our Nation. In particular, the Federal Government must address the recent and alarming rise in online fraud, identity theft, and misuse of information online. One key step in reducing online fraud and identity theft is to increase the level of trust associated with identities in cyberspace. While this Strategy recognizes the value of anonymity for many online transactions (e.g., blog postings), for other types of transactions (e.g., online banking or accessing electronic health records) it is important that the parties to that transaction have a high degree of trust that they are interacting with known entities. Spoofed websites, stolen passwords, and compromised login accounts are all symptoms of an untrustworthy computing environment. This Strategy seeks to identify ways to raise the level of trust associated with the identities of individuals, organizations, services, and devices involved in certain types of online transactions. The Strategy's vision is: Individuals and organizations utilize secure, efficient, easy-to-use, and interoperable identity solutions to access online services in a manner that promotes confidence, privacy, choice, and innovation."