It is very important for  people to know and understand events that are happening everyday  locally, nationally, and globally.  You are required to select two  current event articles from news sources listed below (see below).  The  dates of the article must be between 2017 and 2022.  The assignment  consists of reading 2 articles and identifying the phases of the HUMINT  Threat to local, national, or global events.  For example, the War in  Ukraine, the cyber-attack on Verizon, the threat of emerging pandemic,  etc.

The purpose of this assignment is to (1) increase your ability to  research current issues in the world, (2) increase your understanding of  a particular area (your choice) in the world of traditional and  nontraditional threats, and (3) be able to critically evaluate news  articles regarding issues.

1. Planning and direction – purposes and scope of the activity.
2. Collection and Processing – evaluate data quantity and quality of  the threat (verify the scope of your sources).  Make sure you identify  credible sources and not false positives.  
3. Analysis – this is a HUMINT process that will contextualize the  threat through application of known structural data or fusing of data.   Start by look at the type of data, processes, and the threat risk.  How  will the threat impact operations?  What systems, organizations,  environments, processes will be impacted?  What will be the effects of  the impact?  What options are available to mitigate?  Is it mitigatable?   If so, how? If not, why?
4. Production – once your analysis is developed, arrange into a  graphical report (at list 1 chart, table) to illustrate your data to  identify the most meaningful information drove logical conclusions from  the data and analysis. Here you will outline courses of actions and  recommendations utilizing decision trees and procedures to initiate  response, remediation, and management.
5. Dissemination – distribution of your data to drive results and  address the threat (threat can be fraud, security, attacks, health,  environmental, political, etc.).  Identify who are the stakeholders,  from leadership to risk down to tertiary level (3rd party).  

News Sources (not all inclusive)     

www.nytimes.com (New York Times – newspaper) 
www.washingtontimes.com (Washington Times – newspaper) 
www.washingtonpost.com (Washington Post – newspaper) 
www.latimes.com (Los Angeles Times – newspaper) 
www.chicagotribune.com (Chicago Tribune – newspaper) 
www.msnbc.com (NBC – broadcast T.V. news and its various entities) 
www.cnn.com (CNN – cable T.V. news) 
www.usnews.com (U.S. News & World Report – magazine) 
www.foxnews.com (Fox – cable T.V. news)
www.abcnews.go.com (ABC – broadcast T.V. news) 
www.cbsnews.com (CBS – broadcast T.V. news) 
www.yahoo.com (Yahoo! – internet news, search by national and world) 
http://online.wsj.com/home-page (Wall Street Journal-newspaper) 
http://www.cantonrep.com/ (Canton Repository- local news) 
http://www.time.com/time/ (Time Magazine) 
http://www.reuters.com/ (Reuters News Service) 
http://www.ap.org/ (Associated Press News Service) 
http://www.bloomberg.com/ (Bloomberg News Report