These include: search and rescue, homeland security, emergency response to the use of weapons of mass destruction and commercial aviation.

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Participants in the Roundtable also discussed the potential application of tiltrotor technology to such activities as search and rescue, homeland security, emergency response to the use of weapons of mass destruction and commercial aviation.

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Like a city, the ship has a fire and emergency response capability and its own security organization, including security forces, legal services, brig and a process by which the captain enforces good order and discipline.

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Patches have already started to appear from security firms including one from the newly created Zeroday Emergency Response Team (Zert).

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Ministers and security chiefs are holding emergency meetings of Cobra, the government's crisis response committee.

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Tragedies like these call for swift response from police and emergency workers, not to mention Homeland Security officials.

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Other warning networks, such as the Computer Emergency Response Team, do exist but they typically only find out about security problems after a lot of companies have been hit.

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The organizations include the CERT Coordination Center, the Electricity Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the European Cyber Crime Center, the Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team, the Australian Federal Police and the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service.

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Working with the Department of Homeland Security, our Maritime Administration has provided FEMA with several nearby ships to provide lodging, food, and power for emergency response teams who have traveled to New York.

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