InfraGard Members Alliance Houston

DHS Active Shooter Seminar

The ECHMA, Shell Oil and the DHS will be having an Active Shooter Seminar on November 15, 2011.

Please click on this link for additonal information

 

Surveillance Detection Awareness on the Job - Virtual Roundtable event on HSIN

The Office of Infrastructure Protection’s (IP) Sector-Specific Agency Executive Management Office (SSA EMO) and Partnership and Outreach Division (POD), with assistance from the Surveillance Detection workgroup, developed a 90-minute, highly interactive and visual, virtual roundtable, designed to raise the awareness of suspicious activities and behaviors that might indicate potential surveillance activities. An invitation to the roundtable is attached. 

The target audience for this roundtable will be a full-range of employees working at critical infrastructure facilities, government agencies, governmental organizations, and private-sector owners and operators, including front-line supervisors such as security managers, facilities managers, human resource managers, compliance managers, and IT managers.

More information: http://www.infragardhouston.org/pdfs/SDA%20Virtual%20Roundtable%209-9-10%20Invite.pdf

FBI: Social networking sites a favorite target for child predators

HOUSTON—The FBI is warning parents to be on the lookout for predators who target kids on popular social networking sites.

Since it’s summer, more kids will be spending time at home. And with the down economy, the cost of child care may force more parents to leave their kids at home alone.

That could leave them open to danger online.

"They leave them home," the FBI’s Amanda Hinton said. "And a lot of times when you leave kids at home, they’re going to turn to the electronics."

Full article at KHOU