The Department of Homeland Security last week launched the next-generation of its Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), the trusted, unclassified network for the sharing of information on homeland security mission operations.
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The upgraded system, HSIN Release 3, includes improved security features and a geographic information system mapping sharing capability, Donna Roy, the HSIN program director for DHS, wrote in the department’s blog on Sept. 27.
Homeland security stakeholders use the network to share sensitive but unclassified information, helping to provide real-time information sharing. The HSIN is used to manage operations, analyze data, share news, hold secure web conferences, and to communicate securely through a trusted network.
The HSIN Release 3 “improves our ability to support law enforcement, emergency managers, and first responders with the tools and resources they need,” Roy wrote. “For example, in support of security operations for Super Bowl XLVII, more than 500 HSIN users visited the site over 20,000 times to share information related to their mission and facilitate coordination between federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, international and homeland security partners.”