report on any topic you chose that has been in the news during the past year that is related to any aspect of disaster planning, disaster response, disaster recovery, security breaches or threats, or risk assessment/risk management.

You may report on any topic you chose that has been in the news during the past year that is related to any aspect of disaster planning, disaster response, disaster recovery, security breaches or threats, or risk assessment/risk management. The issue may involve government entities, non-governmental

organizations, or private sector industry. Feel free to use any open source material for your research

such as newspaper or magazine articles, credible and respected blogs, industry or trade journals,

academic journals, or the broadcast media.

Use the following template to organize your written report.

TITLE

Provide a short description of the subject you are presenting similar to a newspaper or magazine headline (e.g., Avian Flu Epidemic Raising Concerns Among Poultry Industry in Midwest; Office of

Management and Budgets Alerts Millions of Federal Employees of Data Breach; Chemical Plants Increase

Security Measures in Response to Terror Alerts; etc.

BACKGROUND

Provide a one or two paragraph summary of the topic. This explains the who, what, when, where, and

why of the sbject.

KEY ISSUES

Provide 3 or 4 “bullet points” that identify the problems involved, challenges faced, lessons learned, and

corrective actions taken to resolve the issue.

SOURCES

Please identify your sources using the APA citation guidance, e.g., articles in journals, magazines, and

newspapers must include the following elements: author(s), date of publication, article title, journal

title, volume number, issue number (if applicable), and page numbers. For material accessed online,

please provide an accurate http link, e.g. http://www.nber.org/papers/w14124.