8246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Avian Influenza, Advance-Fee Scam, Natural Disaster
5 Jun 2018
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National Security - Lecture 4
New Threats and Challenges
The 8 Biggest Global Threats to Watch in 2018:
• Military conflict involving the US, North Korea, and its neighbouring countries.
• An armed confrontation between Iran and the US or one of its allies.
• A highly disruptive cyberattack on US critical infrastructure and networks.
• A military confrontation between Russia and NATO members,
• An armed confrontation over disputed maritime areas in the South China Sea.
• A mass causality terrorist attack on the US homeland or a treaty ally.
• Intensified violence in Syria as government forces attempt to regain control over
territory.
• Increased violence and instability in Afghanistan.
Old Threats:
• Diplomacy
• Defence
• Terrorism
• WMD
• Espionage
• Trade
• Crime
New Threats:
• Transnational crime
• Trafficking in people
• Drugs, arms and people smuggling
• Illegal exploitation of resources
• Organised crime
• Cyber warfare
• Pandemics
• Climate change
• Population pressures
• Food, water and energy pressures
VISION and PURPOSE
• Vision
o Our vision is for a safer Australia that is better connected, informed and capable
of responding to crime and criminal justice issues.
• Purpose
o To make Australia safer through improved national ability to discover, understand
and respond to current and emerging crime threats and criminal justice issues,
including the ability to connect police and law enforcement to essential criminal
intelligence, policing knowledge and information through collaborative national
information systems and services.
ROLE and FUNCTIONS
• Role
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o Reducing serious and organised crime threats of most harm to Australians and the
national interest, and providing national policing information systems and
services.
• Functions
o Collect, correlate, analyse and disseminate criminal information and intelligence.
o Maintain a national database of criminal information and intelligence.
o Provide and maintain national information capabilities and services to support
policing and law enforcement.
o Provide strategic criminal intelligence assessments and advice on national
criminal intelligence priorities.
o Conduct investigations and intelligence operations into federally relevant criminal
activity.
o Provide nationally coordinated criminal history checks.
ACIC 16-17 Annual Report
• Criminal threats are more complex and pervasive than ever before.
• Criminals seek to exploit vulnerabilities, emerging technologies and perceived gaps in
law enforcement information.
• Touches the lives of Australians in many ways, from devastated families and damaged
communities to lost income, health and social impacts, and erosion of public trust.
• Around 70% of Australia's serious and organised criminal threats are based offshore or
have strong offshore links.
• It is an unprecedented national security threat - identified links between terrorism,
broader organised crime and volume crime.
• It also includes 'lone actions' and Australians recruited by organised crime groups
seeking the skill sets developed in foreign conflicts.
• Crime penetrates and capitalises on technology and the cyber environment.
• Criminal groups can now target thousands of Australians simultaneously from
anywhere in the world, and use increasingly sophisticated technologies to counter law
enforcement efforts.
• New forms of business are emerging in addition to traditional organised crime
activities. This diversification into multiple criminal markets provides consistent
revenue streams to finance higher risk ventures and enables criminal enterprises to
respond to shifts in supply and demand.
Big Business
• Estimated that organised crime costs Australia around $36 billion a year.
• This includes $21 billion in direct serious and organised crime costs and $15 billion in
prevention and response costs.
• Globally, profits from transnational organised crime in 2009 were estimated at around
US$870 billion, a figured that has undoubtedly grown since.
Cybercrime
• In Australia, the term 'cybercrime' is used to describe both:
o Crimes directed at computers or other information communications technologies
(ICTs) (such as hacking and denial of service attacks).
o Crimes where computers or ICTs are an integral part of an offence (such as online
fraud, identity theft and the distribution of child exploitation material).
• Key Priorities
o Education the community to protect themselves.
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Document Summary
Intensified violence in syria as government forces attempt to regain control over territory. Old threats: diplomacy, defence, terrorism, wmd, espionage, trade, crime. Illegal exploitation of resources: transnational crime, trafficking in people, drugs, arms and people smuggling, organised crime, cyber warfare, pandemics, climate change, population pressures, food, water and energy pressures. It is an unprecedented national security threat - identified links between terrorism, broader organised crime and volume crime. This diversification into multiple criminal markets provides consistent revenue streams to finance higher risk ventures and enables criminal enterprises to respond to shifts in supply and demand. Us billion, a figured that has undoubtedly grown since. Increase it security spend, with 95% of organisations in asia increasing their budget this year compared with 81% in australia. Internet auction fraud, and advanced fee fraud schemes allow criminals to target the us without being present in the country.
