President Trump nominated White House Deputy Chief of Staff Kirstjen Nielsen to be the new Secretary of Homeland Security.

The GW Center for Cyber and Homeland Security (CCHS) at the George Washington University is pleased to announce that it is currently seeking applicants for a new class of senior fellows for a two-year term that will begin in the fall of 2017.

President Trump nominated David P. Pekoske, the former vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, to be the next administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.

Rhode Island has hired its first cybersecurity officer: former utility executive Mike Steinmetz.

Tom Bossert, a former national security aide to President George W. Bush, will serve as Donald Trump's homeland security adviser in the White House.

Following the announcement that Federal prisoners would no longer be held in privately run facilities, the Department of Homeland Security is reviewing the use of private companies in managing immigration and customs enforcement detention centers. 

Sovereign citizens in the United States number about 300,000 adherents, of which a third are viewed as “hard core.”

A new survey has found that a majority of Americans support "smart" -- or childproof -- guns.
 

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson activated the National Terrorism Advisory System for the first time today.
 

DHS will unveil a new national alert system in the coming days to reflect the "new phase" of the terror threat.