Chapter Projects

Link to WMD May 2012 WMD Conference New Orleans

 

Federal Agencies Announce Pilot Joint Maritime Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Protection, Coordination, and Response Workshop

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, and Department of Defense are co-hosting the Joint Maritime CIKR Protection, Coordination and Response Workshop. This workshop will bring together representatives from Federal, State, local law enforcement, industry stakeholders and other partners. The purpose of this workshop is to test enhanced communication between all partners in a WMD maritime related threat, WMD crisis response, and interagency roles and responsibilities for this National priority. This operational activity will ensure attendees receive intelligence threat information and gain a greater understanding of how to recognize suspicious activity and how to report such activity to law enforcement and the FBI for the purpose of developing tripwires and countermeasures. Space is limited and prospective attendees can register on-line.

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Summer 2011 - Proposed Louisiana Chapter Reorganization to Form InfraGard Louisiana Members Alliance

 

At the request of the FBI New Orleans Field Office, the New Orleans InfraGard Chapter (InfraGard South East Louisiana Members Alliance) has developed a proposal to consolidate all Louisiana InfraGard Chapters under one corporate entity.  To view a Powerpoint discussing this Proposal, please click here.

The purposes of the reorganization are:  

• To minimize the overhead necessary for chapter maintenance for the FBI
• To meet all FBI requirements for chapter incorporation with minimum administrative paperwork
• To minimize the chapter officer's adminstrative and financial paperwork 
• To consolidate Director and Officer liability insurance
• To focus all chapters on mutually beneficial goals and expand existing SIGs state wide
• To expand InfraGard's breadth and outreach into smaller Louisiana communities.
• To provide a more unified image and appearance to other State agencies.

ISELAMA's officers understand that the Baton Rouge Chapter is in accord with this Proposal, and that the Proposal has been broached with the Acadiana Chapter for consideration.

 

This Proposal was presented at the last ISELAMA Member's Meeting, and the reaction of the Members present was positive, with no negative responses voiced.  ISELAMA's officers wish to receive additional input from ISELAMA Members before proceeding with this Proposal, as the Proposal ultimately will involve a vote of ISELAMA's Board and Membership.

 

Assuming there is ISELAMA consensus to proceed with the Proposal, the Officers plan to start implementing the Proposal in August.  Accordingly, your prompt feedback is requested.

 

Please address any comments or questions regarding the Proposal that you may have to Dennis Kelly, ISELAMA Chapter President, at dkelly@mba1974.hbs.edu.

Summer-Fall 2011 Tiger Trap

 

 Infragard's Louisiana chapters are hosting a statewide computer capture the flag exercise that began training sessions July 9 and will culminate in a two day exercise September 17 and 18.  Details are available here: http://tigertrap.org

Fall 2011 - Scam Jam 

Louisiana Infragard chapters support the FBI and FBI Citizen's Academy Alumni Association's new "Scam Jam" to raise community awareness on anti-fraud practices.

Date: Thursday September 15, 2011

Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm

Location: Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams boulevard, Kenner, LA 70065

Target Audience: Grandparents, parents, community groups

Cost: Free

ISELAMA Chapter Year End Report for 2010 

Gulf Coast Re-Entry Project Click this link to learn about the Gulf Coast Re-Entry Project

Becoming Cyber Rugged  -- What every US resident needs to know about computers on the Internet to be safe in the 21st Century.  This course describes new digital frontier concepts like digital information is an asset, convergence, how to evauate safety and security on the Internet, how to protect from Internet scams, why is Web 2.0 dangerous when "The Web" wasn't, malicious software (malware), phishing, identity theft, protecting children on Facebook and while surfing, protecting PCs from phishing, fraud and other dangers, backing up information, 10 top actions to keep your information, computer, and identity safe and what to do if the worst happens.  Fundamentals are presented,  then concrete actions to protect home and small business computers are given in each topic. It is updated regularly.  The most current presentation is available here: Cyber Rugged.

FBI-SOS  -- 3rd- 8th grade Cyber Education Program.  Infragard is working with the FBI-SOS program to get cyber education into New Orleans public schools. Nova Southeastern University in Florida developed a self contained.  Schools across the country sign up on the website, then in class students complete Internet treasure hunts to collect information about Safe Online Surfing.  Students take quizzes and their scores are compared to those of others around the country.  The winning school each month wins a visit from a real FBI agent.  See http://fbi-sos.org for details.   

Experiments with Crowdsourcing - Can we do this for New Orleans for the next Mardi Gras, hurricane or Superbowl 2013 ?

 

See how it's being used in Egypt: http://openegypt.crowdmap.com

Here is a prototype site for New Orleans.  http://iselama.crowdmap.com

We need someone with Linux skills to set up the server and SMS for text reporting.