Homeland Security Information Network
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The Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) is a web-based platform, run by the Department of Homeland Security, which is designed to allow local, state, tribal, and federal government agencies to share "Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU)" information with each other over a secure channel.
The HSIN provides three main functional categories. First, it provides a SharePoint web portal system which allows agencies and events to have a basic workspace for collaboration. Second, it provides a Jabber chat system, with user managed rooms. Third, it provides the Common Operational Picture, a custom executive situational awareness web application based on Oracle HTML DB.
The Department of Homeland Security has publicly announced that the network has so far been hacked at least twice in 2009—once in March and once in April.
The HSIN provides three main functional categories. First, it provides a SharePoint web portal system which allows agencies and events to have a basic workspace for collaboration. Second, it provides a Jabber chat system, with user managed rooms. Third, it provides the Common Operational Picture, a custom executive situational awareness web application based on Oracle HTML DB.
The Department of Homeland Security has publicly announced that the network has so far been hacked at least twice in 2009—once in March and once in April.
See also
- Automated Trusted Information ExchangeAutomated Trusted Information ExchangeAutomated Trusted Information Exchange is a computer database containing homeland security and terrorist threat information, which is part of the U.S...
- Joint Regional Information Exchange SystemJoint Regional Information Exchange SystemThe Joint Regional Information Exchange System began in December 2002 as an all-source intelligence / information sharing system, designed initially as a grassroots pilot system to connect the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center, the New York Police Department, and the Defense...
- Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information ExchangeMultistate Anti-Terrorism Information ExchangeThe Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange Program, also known by the acronym MATRIX, was a federally funded data mining system originally developed for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement described as a tool to identify terrorist subjects....
- National Criminal Intelligence Sharing PlanNational Criminal Intelligence Sharing PlanThe National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan is an intelligence-sharing initiative that links the computer databases of local, state, regional, tribal law enforcement agencies with those of the U.S...
- Regional Information Sharing SystemsRegional Information Sharing SystemsRegional Information Sharing Systems is an information-sharing program funded by the U.S. Federal government whose purpose is to connect databases from local and regional law enforcement so that they can use each other's data for criminal investigations....
- SurveillanceSurveillanceSurveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...