As a means of monitoring and advancing the priority actions identified during the 2015 Addressing the Challenges of a Robust State and Regional Information Sharing Environment: A Summit of State Policy Leaders, an Implementation Working Group (IWG) was established.

City and county law enforcement executives have often found the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) summary process cumbersome with regard to developing strategies for responding to specific categories of crime and in making comparisons with other jurisdictions.

 Cyberattacks, resilience of critical infrastructure, and related cybersecurity concerns are escalating at exponential rates, and so are the many governmental programs attempting to mitigate the risks for all citizens as well as government and industry. As a wide range of threats expand, and cyberterrorists, cybercriminals and other nefarious actors transform their capabilities into new forms of attack, the demand for faster and more effective responses and ways of prevention grow as well.

The Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC) supports state, local, and tribal law enforcement and homeland security agencies develop and share criminal intelligence and information nationwide.

The protection of the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties (P/CRCL) of individuals is a core tenet, foundational element, and enabler of the ISE. In 2005, the Administration called for the development of a protection framework.

The terrorism-related Information Sharing Environment is the central initiative to strengthen responsible information sharing across communities, agencies, and levels of government to implement goals set forth by President Obama in the 2012 National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding.

From June 16th – June 19th of this year, the Northeast Regional Intelligence Group (NRIG), sponsored by the National Fusion Center Association, convened in Jersey City to share best practices on information sharing. Dubbed “Cyber Thursday,” the second day of the three day conference included a variety of prese

Officer Smith from Anytown PD is working a burglary ring investigation into activities at 123 Main Street Anytown, USA and enters his search warrant into RISSafe. RISSsafe is the officer safety event deconfliction system operated by the Regional Information Sharing System (RISS).

A successful information sharing environment (ISE) requires active communities of interest (COI) to implement information sharing best practices. In the threat and risk arena, this involves a COI that brings together the mission focus for integrated threat along with risk management and situational awareness, and also combines standards, technologies, and capabilities.

Interoperable systems cannot exist if they don’t speak the same language. The Program Manager – Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE), in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, completed a Digital Policy Management (DPM) Framework for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), publicly available at ise.gov.