Executive Summary (EXSUM) Introduction There is no need to stress the significance of the Department of Homeland Security. Unless it provided its services to the U.S. citizens and served to protect the United States from the possible attacks of those willing to change the political landscape of the country, the security of the residents of the United States would be driven to nil, and all citizens of the state would be in peril. However, no matter what efforts the DHS may apply, the risk will always be there; hence, it will be reasonable to consider the ways of using this risk to the state’s benefit instead of trying to eliminate it without any tangible effect. Seeing how impressive changes have been made to the Emergency Management, Health Department, Transportation, and Budget, it will be reasonable to suggest that the principles of information management must be reconsidered in order to ensure the security of the U.S. citizens and state government. Roles and responsibility Because of the reconsideration of the current structure of the U.S. Homeland Security Department, it will be necessary to redistribute roles and responsibilities among its members. Since the recent changes that have been carried out are bound to affect the fields of health, transportation, and budget, it will be reasonable to assign the representatives of the aforementioned Departments with the role of incorporating the principles of information technology into the realm of their daily professional routine. To be more exact, the Health Department should be responsible for facilitating statewide awareness regarding recent health concerns; the information concerning emergency issues must be delivered to the corresponding representative of the Emergency department in order to address the issue more efficiently; finally, the data on the state finances must be arranged in databases so that only the members of the Department could have access to it and at the same time could share it with each other fast and efficiently. Risk management: Vulnerability, Threat and Consequence It will be necessary to come up with a system of information management that will incorporate knowledge-sharing principles and data security. While the latter is crucial for ensuring people’s personal data safety, the former is essential for managing the above-mentioned data efficiently. As long as a restricted amount of government employees have access to the governmental information, delays in data delivery and misconceptions in its interpretation remain a possibility. Thus, creating a flexible system of navigation through the existing information is required. In addition to creating databases, which can only be accessed by using specific passwords, it will also be necessary to introduce the principles of knowledge sharing into the state. Organizing and prioritizing Because of the necessity to incorporate the work of several departments, DHS will have to come up with a set of strategies for working with cross-sectional entities. It would be wrong to deny that the incorporation of such sectors as financial, health and budget one is fraught with major conflicts not only between the members of the aforementioned departments but also the methods of data ma