The 9/10/11 Project: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Homeland Security & Defense Business Council
Are We Ready for the Day Before Tomorrow?
Imagine it is September 10, 2011 - 9/10/11 - a full decade since the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Is our nation equipped for whatever catastrophe may happen tomorrow? How have our prevention, preparedness, response and resiliency structures changed, matured and become operational? The Homeland Security & Defense Business Council's 9/10/11 Project looks at how far the country has come since the day before 9/11/2001. Through fresh interviews with industry leaders the Council is seeking to vividly illustrate the strides our government at all levels, working with the private sector, has made to secure the country and to stay at least one step ahead of events and disasters that could destroy our way of life. On the 10th of each month through September 2011, the Council will provide a historical context for how far we have come and where we are now, as well as an assessment of the future of the most pressing homeland security issues. This monograph focuses on Critical Infrastructure Protection. Read the Critical Infrastructure Protection monograph. Visit The 9/10/11 Project webpage.

Customs 2020: A Business and Technology Point of View
Accenture
Customs agencies, long seen as a steward of a nation’s trade and borders, are under pressure like never before.  This pressure is arriving simultaneously on many fronts, requiring Customs to perform at the highest levels to facilitate legitimate trade while protecting its nation’s citizens from an ever-growing and dynamic litany of threats.

Protecting Society, Easing Global Travel: Enabling High Performance for Immigration Agencies
Accenture
Today, immigration agencies around the world face a myriad of challenges including helping to prevent terrorism, people trafficking and illegal migration, while responding to travelers’ demands for faster, simpler transit. Citizens demand transparency and efficiency, yet insist on safety. Faced with the additional pressures of an ever- increasing volume of travelers, scarce resources, growing concerns about privacy, and facility and infrastructure limitations, many agencies struggle to cope with the existing, let alone future, demands placed upon them. Facilitating immigration while improving security has never been more daunting.

Transforming Global Border Management
Accenture
Today’s border management agencies are challenged like never before. Globalization and the threat of terrorism have ushered in a climate that demands high performance and total responsiveness—every time. The need for ever more efficient, rapid and open movement of travelers and goods coincides with heightened demands for more secure traveler and cargo identification before, at and within a country’s borders without compromising an individual’s basic rights and privacy. Working with global border management agencies, Accenture has developed a comprehensive approach to address these challenges. This vision combines people, processes and technology in new ways to help enable agencies to keep a country, its trade, its visitors and its citizens safe and secure while promoting economic stability and growth. Around the world, we are applying this vision to support border management agencies in transforming their operations to enable the simple, efficient movement of goods and people while preventing threats from crossing the borders.

A Secure Scenario-Layered Integration of Biometric-Based Identification
Unisys Corporation
Unisys is working with a number of universities, companies and customers to integrate leading-edge enhancements to improve recognition solutions for access control at our borders, our airports, and to our infrastructures that support transportation, banking and finance, communications, power grid and government services. As an integrator, combining these advancements in technology to meet specific business needs offers interesting challenges and exciting opportunities - to prevent unauthorized access, reduce the need and costs for physical entry control personnel and helpdesk support.  This white paper outlines security issues we face today, and how layering biometric identification technologies can create a more secure information system or critical infrastructure. It also shows how by partnering with our customers, vendor-suppliers and talented engineers across the company Unisys is helping to turn the visions of today into the realities of tomorrow. A safer, more secure world.