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• Assessing the Collective Security Treaty Organization: Capabilities and Vulnerabilities

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  "The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has been one of the Russian Federation's more visible forays down the path of regional hegemony. Under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has been promoting a series of increasingly ambitious Russian-led multilateral institutions. The CSTO has helped restore Moscow's military power in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Although originally designed for mutual defense, CSTO members employ the organization to counter transnational threats such as cyber vulnerabilities, narcotics trafficking, transnational crime, and terrorism. Member countries further collaborate on arms sales and manufacturing, military facilities and training, regional security consultations, and conducting joint military exercises. In addition, the development of some permanent bodies in recent years demonstrates increased integration among CSTO members. Moscow uses the CSTO to pursue a variety of goals such as power projection, legitimation of its policies, and constraints on member states. Although Russia dominates the CSTO, the organization is weak. Its member governments continue to disagree on important issues and have failed to act in Ukraine or Syria. The weakness of the CSTO has hindered Russia's ability to pursue its goals through the organization and provides an opening for skilled U.S. leadership."

  Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute

  Weitz, Richard

  2018-10
• 2018 Internet Crime Report

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  "The FBI is the lead federal agency for investigating cyber-attacks by criminals, overseas adversaries, and terrorists, and the FBI's IC3 [Internet Complaint Center] provides the public with a trustworthy and convenient reporting mechanism to submit information concerning suspected Internetfacilitated criminal activity. The 2018 Internet Crime Report emphasizes the IC3's efforts in monitoring trending scams such as Business Email Compromise (BEC), Extortion, Tech Support Fraud, and Payroll Diversion. In 2018, IC3 received a total of 351,936 complaints with losses exceeding $2.7 Billion"

  United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Internet Crime Complaint Center (U.S.)

  2018
• Future Evolution of Transnational Criminal Organizations and the Threat to U.S. National Security

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  From the Overview: "In the 21st-century global security environment, we are facing a complex set of threats to U.S. national security emanating from state and non-state actors. These threats endanger the key responsibilities of the nation-state to its citizens: to guarantee their security and the nation's territory, promote economic prosperity, safeguard society, and ensure that the government represents their will. […] The tragic September 11, 2001, attacks perpetrated by al Qaeda are just one such example of threats from non-state actors. Besides terror groups, transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are among the non-state actors that leverage their illicit activities, immense resources, and use of violence to undermine the security and prosperity of the United States and partner nations. The United States recognizes TCOs as a national security threat and has deployed a national security strategy to combat it. In order to attack these networks, the United States must understand and deny access to critical enablers needed by TCOs to operate. The future trajectory of transnational criminal organizations is disconcerting, as they will seek to penetrate new markets with goods and services and establish more spheres of influence using corruption and violence. The cyber domain will afford them a new operating environment to further expand their criminal activities. Some TCOs will continue to resemble multinational corporations focused on maximizing profits, while others will hijack political power in the form of criminalized states. Another dangerous and disturbing evolution that we are already witnessing is the convergence of terrorism and crime where groups use criminal proceeds to fund terrorist activities. To combat the evolution of these threats, the Joint Force will need to develop more innovative kinetic and non-kinetic measures and build its own networks to neutralize transnational criminal networks."

  William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

  Realuyo, Celina B.

  2015-06
• Trusted Insiders are Committing Fraud and Embezzlement Within Organizations: Is There a Connection to Addiction, as the Motivating Factor for Their Illegal Activities?

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  From the thesis abstract: "Extensive studies and research have been conducted on insider threats, the possible causes, predictive models and best practices for prevention, early detection, and mitigation of the threats of insider attacks to a wide range of critical infrastructure, government agencies, and the private sector. Current research shows a great deal of attention directed at the cyber threats toward organizations. In contrast, relatively little research has been conducted on the insider threat with regard to financial fraud and embezzlement to organizations. Left undetected, insiders can cause irreparable and devastating consequences to private and public sector organizations, which compromise the integrity of the overall financial system. Recent criminal cases have revealed a disturbing trend linking many of the trusted insiders convicted of conducting fraud or embezzlement within the victim organizations to an addiction to gambling or prescription drugs. Also alarming is the frequency of trusted insiders conducting fraud within government agencies to support their addiction. This paper studies research on insider threats, and suggests that addiction is a contributing factor to the motives of the insiders' criminal behaviors. Research also suggests that accurate reporting by law enforcement agencies is not occurring in police reports on motives or causes of the reasons insiders are committing their crimes."

  Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.); Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security

  Johnson, Paul R.

  2014-06
• Annotated Worldwide Threat Assessment 2014

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  This is an interactive replication of the "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community" (the threat assessment document in its entirety is available at: https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=749413). This annotated version provides in-depth summaries into each chapter of the threat assessment. These chapters include: Cyber, Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Counterspace, Transnational Organized Crime, Economic Trends, Natural Resources, Health Risks, and Mass Atrocities. From the document's coverpage: "The Worldwide Threat Assessment has been presented to Congress annually by the Director of National Intelligence; and before that office was created, it was presented by the CIA Director in his position as the Director of Central Intelligence. This annual threat assessment testimony, published as text, is one of the most informative top-level products of the U.S. Intelligence Community that is publicly available. For the 2014 assessment, the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School has produced and provided a multi-media enhanced, annotated version of the text document."

  Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security

  2014
• HERO Pilot (Fiscal Year 2018 Report to Congress)

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  From the Executive Summary: "The Human Exploitation Rescue Operative (HERO) Child Rescue Corps recruits and trains wounded, ill, or injured active-duty service members; transitioning active-duty service members; and military veterans to support law enforcement in the areas of child-exploitation investigations, child-victim identification, traveling child-sex-offender investigations, and computer forensics. The yearlong unpaid internship is managed by ICE Homeland Security Investigations' (HSI) Cyber Crimes Center (C3), the National Organization to Protect Children, and the U.S. Department of Defense's Special Operations Command. The HERO Child Rescue Corps honors the Nation's commitment to its veterans, and enables those veterans to contribute to HSI's mission. The primary goal of the HERO Program is to recruit, train, and hire veterans, and to retain them as General Schedule (GS)-1801 Computer Forensic Analysts (CFA). [...] The FY 2018 DHS Appropriations Act (P.L. 115-141) designated $2 million to train and hire 10 CFAs. In FY 2018, HSI's C3 Computer Forensics Unit hired 25 CFAs who had been trained in last year's HERO Program. An additional 17 HEROs completed their classroom training and are currently in the field training portion of their internships. They will complete the training program and be eligible for employment in March 2019."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security

  2018-10-23
• Organizing the U.S. Government for National Security: Overview of the Interagency Reform Debates [December 16, 2008]

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  "A growing community of interest, including Members of Congress, senior officials in the executive branch, and think-tank analysts, is calling for a reexamination of how well the U.S. government, including both the executive branch and Congress, is organized to apply all instruments of national power to national security activities. The organizations and procedures used today to formulate strategy, support presidential decision-making, plan and execute missions, and budget for those activities are based on a framework established just after World War II. That framework was designed to address a very different global strategic context: a bipolar world with a single peer competitor state, the Soviet Union, which was driven by an expansionist ideology and backed by a massive military force. Six decades later, in the wake of 9/11, many observers and practitioners note, the United States faces greater uncertainty and a broader array of security challenges than before, including nonstate as well as traditional state-based threats, and transnational challenges such as organized crime, energy security concerns, cyber attacks, and epidemic disease. The 'outdated bureaucratic superstructure' of the 20th century is an inadequate basis for protecting the nation from 21st century security challenges, critics contend, and the system itself, or alternatively, some of its key components, requires revision. [...]The purpose of this report, which will be updated as events warrant, is to help frame the emerging debates for the 111th Congress by taking note of the leading advocates for change, highlighting identified shortcomings in key elements of the current system, and describing categories of emerging proposals for change."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Serafino, Nina M.; Towell, Pat; Dale, Catherine

  2008-12-16
• FY2009 Appropriations for State and Local Homeland Security [Updated October 10, 2008]

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  "This report is an overview of the FY2009 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programs for states and localities that are designed to provide assistance to state and local governments." "Congress appropriated, in P.L. 110-329, approximately $4.36 billion for state and local homeland security assistance programs. This is approximately $135 million more than was appropriated in FY2008 ($4.22 billion). Congress chose not to fund the Real ID program in FY2009, however, it did appropriate funding ($2 million) for a new assistance program titled the Center for Counterterrorism and Cyber Crime at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. This report will not be updated."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Reese, Shawn

  2008-10-10
• Anti-Money Laundering: An Overview for Congress [March 1, 2017]

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  "Anti-money laundering (AML) refers to efforts to prevent criminal exploitation of financial systems to conceal the location, ownership, source, nature, or control of illicit proceeds. Despite the existence of longstanding domestic regulatory and enforcement mechanisms, as well as international commitments and guidance on best practices, policymakers remain challenged to identify and address policy gaps and new laundering methods that criminals exploit. According to United Nations estimates recognized by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, criminals in the United States generate some $300 billion in illicit proceeds that might involve money laundering. Rough International Monetary Fund estimates also indicate that the global volume of money laundering could amount to as much as 2.7% of the world's gross domestic product, or $1.6 trillion annually. Money laundering is broadly recognized to have potentially significant economic and political consequences at both national and international levels. Despite robust AML efforts in the United States, the ability to counter money laundering effectively remains challenged by a variety of factors. These include: the scale of global money laundering; the diversity of illicit methods to move and store ill-gotten proceeds through the international financial system; the introduction of new and emerging threats (e.g., cyber-related financial crimes); the ongoing use of old methods (e.g., bulk cash smuggling); gaps in legal, regulatory, and enforcement regimes, including uneven availability of international training and technical assistance for AML purposes; and the costs associated with financial institution compliance with global AML guidance and national laws."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Miller, Rena S.; Rosen, Liana W.

  2017-03-01
• Overview of U.S. Sanctions Regimes on Russia [July 11, 2017]

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  "On December 29, 2016, President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for malicious cyber activity. These were the latest in a series of U.S. sanctions regimes that have been imposed on Russia over the last several years in response to activities that are state-sponsored or allegedly conducted by government officials. In addition, a number of Russian individuals and entities are subject to sanctions for terrorism, transnational crime, and weapons proliferation. The United States' use of economic sanctions in furtherance of national security or foreign policy is implemented, primarily, by the Departments of State (visas, arms embargos, arms sales, foreign aid, and in limited circumstances, prohibiting the use of U.S. passports to travel), Commerce (commercial exports), Defense (arms sales), Justice (investigation and prosecution), and the Treasury (blocking assets, prohibiting transactions, licensing export transactions, financial services, and in limited circumstances, restricting transactions related to travel). Interagency consulting occurs in implementing and administering any economic sanctions regime."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Welt, Cory; Rennack, Dianne E.

  2017-07-11