Overview[1]#

United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a United States Federal Agency of the United States federal government whose head is a member of the United States Cabinet and is responsible for in public security.

United States Department of Homeland Security is roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries.

United States Department of Homeland Security stated missions involve Terrorism, border security, immigration and customs, Cybersecurity, and disaster prevention and management.

United States Department of Homeland Security was created in response to the September 11 attacks.

In fiscal year 2017, it was allocated a net discretionary budget of $40.6 billion.[2] With more than 240,000 employees,[4]

United States Department of Homeland Security is the third largest United States Cabinet, after the United States Department of Defense and United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

United States Department of Homeland Security policy is coordinated at the White House by the Homeland Security Council. Other agencies with significant homeland security responsibilities include the United States Department of Health and Human Services, United States Department of Justice, and United States Department of Energy.

United States Department of Homeland Security operates Fusion centers

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Automated Biometric Identification System
• Automated Targeting System
• Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
• Common Weakness Enumeration
• DHS
• DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis
• Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure
• Domain Name System
• EINSTEIN
• Facial recognition
• Fusion centers
• Government Surveillance
• HTTPS Interception Weakens TLS Security
• Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology
• MITRE Corporation
• National Cyber Security Division
• Nonimmigrant Information System
• Password Anti-Pattern
• REAL ID
• SSL-TLS Interception
• Secure connection
• Transportation Security Administration
• Traveler Verification Service
• United States Cabinet Department
• United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
• United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
• United States Customs and Border Protection
• United States Federal Emergency Management Agency
• United States Secret Service
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• [#1] - United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security - based on information obtained 2017-03-30-