In this article Kevin Gors explores the potential ramifications of misunderstanding today's terrorists and their use of deception as a terror tactic.

The attempted car bombing on May 1, 2010, in New York's Times Square served as another wakeup call to the world's police and security forces on the uncompromising global terrorist threat, and their ongoing efforts to successfully target urban environments in the US.

This is why if you are involved in intelligence, counter-terrorism, police work, or private security you need to be trained in the most advanced anti-terror, protection and detection techniques. And the HALO Corporation's Bi-Coastal Counter-Terrorism Summit offers you all this and more.

In this op-ed piece, Edward M. Roche, Ph.D., J.D., writes about the intelligence implications of evolving virtual world platforms, and their connections to crime and terrorism.

In this feature the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP) asks New Jersey Homeland Security Director Richard L. Cañas a number of questions about, among other subjects, his office's mission, the role of intelligence in counterterrorism, and the role of police officers in homeland security and counterterrorism.

By analyzing how the linguistic roots of the term "al-Qaeda" are used in the Quran, Ayman Wasfy, who among his other accomplishments is an expert Arabic linguist, has determined a fundamentally easy way to defeat Al-Qaeda around the globe. And that is, tell people what the term really means.

In this article, Admiral Thad W. Allen, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, examines the potential exploitation of small vessels by terrorists, and smugglers of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics, illegal aliens and other contraband. The article was cited by Mr. M. Robert Gauvin, Technical Advisor in the USCG Office of Vessel Activities during his featured presentation, "Implementing the Small Vessel Security Strategy", at the IDGA 7th Annual Maritime Homeland Security Summit in April 2009.

This is reprinted here from U.S. Naval Institute (USNI) Proceedings with permission; Copyright © 2008 U.S. Naval Institute at www.usni.org.

In this article from HomelandDefenseStocks.com, Lisa Springer CFA, equity research analyst and financial writer takes a look at how defense contractors are impacted by the 2010 defense budget presented in April by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

In this article from the latest Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International, James Casey, who is the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Jacksonville Field Office, briefly reviews the pros and cons of the United States establishing a domestic security and intelligence service along the lines of Great Britain's MI-5.

Frankfurt, November 11th 2008: German Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement assigned UAV manufacturer EMT with testing of the MicroBAT 275, Bental's latest development of a stabilized camera system for light weight UAVs. The intention of the tests is to equip close range UAVs in the field with Bental's stabilized camera system.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the practice of grouping functionality around business processes and packaging them as interoperable services is the subject of Bridging the SOA Divide for Deployed Assets. Cameron Matthews, CTO of Sentek Consulting, writes about the strategies behind using SOA in forward-deployed operations.