Risk Management Within the Homeland Security Enterprise

Risk Management within the Homeland Security Enterprise
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Risk Management within the Homeland Security Enterprise
The homeland security enterprise (HSE) is an upcoming work that the government has embraced due to the various attacks. It consists of several institutions and agencies that support the USA via several national spaces. These missions are available from different sources and need a strong relationship to boost the country's security posture. In a collaborative effort, several governmental and non-governmental organizations support the collective aims of HSE. Unluckily, the US HSE is difficult and includes rival requirements, interests, and incentives that should be balanced effectively to achieve essential national objectives. Risk management is an effective way of approaching the fact that safeguarding homeland security is uncertain.
Risk management practice permits a comprehensive and systematic method of HSE decision-making. It boosts the growth and application of threat analysis. Some of the important functions (roles) of risk management include resource decisions, operational planning, research, and development. Firstly, strategic planning is essential in helping homeland security make better decisions to inform selection between alternative actions and strategies (Homeland Security, 2011). Furthermore, it allows evaluation of the effectiveness of all activities individuals undertake. Risk management should be developed to evaluate different risks a certain company faces, implementing a long-standing outlook to build abilities that can alleviate risks via response, security, prevention, and recovery activities.
Moreover, risk management plays a crucial role in resource decisions. Risk management should be an integral factor of an evidence-based strategy for allocating and requesting resources. Through understanding threats, organizations can classify genuine necessities and describe desired results. These fund projects have a better return on investment and discuss the rationale behind the decision are clear, transparent, and objective terms. Additionally, risk management in the homeland security enterprise plays a crucial role in operational planning. Via risk management, companies can know the scenarios that could have a negative impact, the potential consequences, the risk that merits special attention, and the resources that are potentially necessary and can affect the organizations.
Research and development is another vital role of homeland security. These risk analyses can be applied to communicate which is best for the company. This process will enhance knowledge and innovate answers, thus, forming primacies for durable investigation and progress investments. HSE is also responsible for ensuring the civilian federal government computer systems are safe, and function with the state, local and tribal governments to analyze cyber thefts and risks, spread cyber threat indicators, and collaborate on cyber situation reaction.
Effective risk management strategy comprises three assessments, threat, vulnerability, and criticality. Once homeland security has completed and evaluated these assessments, various key measures are needed to prepare states against attacks (Decker, 2001). Threat assessment is insufficient to support the crucial decisions and judgments that homeland security should make (Decker, 2001). Nevertheless, the criticality and vulnerability assessment enables leaders and managers to make tailored decisions by applying a threat assessment approach. The federal government tends to use this strategy universally. If other society segments use the same approach, homeland security will enable the USA to efficiently and effectively prepare against terrorists.
Homeland security has constantly embraced the unity of effort in risk management. Unity of effort is an effective principle that would help the organization stimulates incorporation and harmonization with entities, facilitating effective sharing of duties to manage risks. Usually, risk management should be collaborated and incorporated between all partners with overlapping and collective risk, including federal, tribal, local, and territorial governments. Also, it should embrace training programs and certification programs for executives.
Training and certification programs should be supported by offering strategies for people to acquire classified information. As a result, the trainees will have unhindered vision into classified threat data, enhancing their capability to secure their network and understand their roles and functions (The Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group, 2012). Moreover, homeland security employs the transparency principle in risk management. Transparency is essential to homeland security because the extent of decisions involved impacts several stakeholders. It is also essential for analysis which contributes to decision-making. Transparency would foster realistic and frank dialogue concerning limitations and opportunities.
Adaptability is another vital principle to address identified areas of risk effectively. This principle comprises developing risk management actions, processes, and strategies to ensure the enterprise remains vibrant and reactive to change. Since the HSE setting is gradually developing due to changes in threats, situations, and priorities, it should be flexible in its approach to controlling risk. Moreover, HSE experiences risk resulting from the dynamic nature of vulnerabilities, consequences, and threats. Therefore, it has embraced the principle of practicality as it cannot eliminate all uncertainty, and it is unrealistic to anticipate determining all...