U.S.Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Content Data Feed

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a cabinet department of the United States federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. Its stated missions involve anti-terrorism, border security, immigration and customs, cyber security, and disaster prevention and management.

The DHS and Archer integration allows you to centralize the RSS feeds from the DHS site and store the data in a searchable, standardized format within Archer. It captures and stores an abstract of the issue and a link to an external site (such as the regulatory news article) that helps to analyze regulatory news and alerts as they pertain to your organization's critical business processes.

Release notes

Release Date	Version	Comment
July 2024	2024.03	Recertified on Archer platform release 2024.03. Renamed installation package to reflect release version but no changes were made to the data feed.
July 2023	6.13	Update documentation

Overview of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Content Data Feed integration

Benefits

With the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Content Data Feed Integration, you will be able to:

• Consolidate Regulatory Intelligence Data.

• Get updates on recent events, current news and information.

• Automatically pulls the data into Archer on a scheduled basis.

Prerequisites (ODA and system requirements)

Components	Prerequisites
Archer Solution Area(s)	Archer Regulatory & Corporate Compliance Management
Archer Use Case(s)	Archer Corporate Obligations Management
Archer Applications	Regulatory Intelligence Items
Uses Custom Application	No
Requires On-Demand License	No

Additional resources

The following additional resources are available for this offering:

• Homeland Security News RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/dhs/zOAi?format=xml

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Content Data Feed integration components

Architecture diagram

The following diagram provides an overview of the integration.

Business process

The business process follows the following flow:

1. DHS posts the most recent news, alerts, or updates on regulatory compliance on their website in several formats, including XML. This includes Department of Homeland Security News.

2. The integration pulls the below mentioned data from the source: DHS website and imports the data into Target: Archer’s Regulatory Intelligence Items application within the following fields:

   • title -> Title

   • Source -> Source

   • link -> Link

   • pubDate -> Date Published

   • link -> GUID

   • description -> Abstract

3. The screenshot below provides example data populated in Archer:

   

Installing U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Content Data Feed integration

Installation overview

This section provides instructions for configuring the integration. This document is not intended to suggest optimum installations or configurations.

It is assumed that the reader has both working knowledge of all products involved, and the ability to perform the tasks outlined in this section. Administrators should have access to the product documentation for all products in order to install the required components.

The prerequisite use cases must be installed and working prior to the integration. Perform the necessary tests to confirm that this is true before proceeding.

Prerequisites (System requirements)

The Regulatory Intelligence Items application is required for installation and operation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Content Data Feed Integration. It serves as a target application for the data feed.

Setting up data feed

The following data feed issued as a part of the integration process:

RegInt Homeland_Security_News_RSS_Feed_v2 is a RSS transporter feed which fetches the data from http://feeds.feedburner.com/dhs/zOAi?format=xml site and creates/updates the records in Regulatory Intelligence Items Application.

For data feed configuration, perform the following steps:

1. Log into the Archer platform and click the Administration workspace tab.

2. Click Data Feeds in the Navigation Menu under Integration.

3. Click the Import link and browse to the RegInt Homeland_Security_News_RSS_Feed_v2.dfx5.

4. Verify settings on the General Information tab. Be sure to change the status to Active before using the feed.

5. Verify the settings on the Transport tab.

   Note: Default Retrieval Count is set to 1 Day. Update this as per your requirement.

6. Verify the settings on the Source Definition tab. This will be pre-configured to identify the necessary fields to generate a score snapshot.

   Note: The Source Field on the Source Definition tab will be automatically populated when you import the data feed. Repopulating the fields by clicking on “Load Fields” will lead to removal of one pre-populated field from the list (i.e. Source). Hence, add a new field by clicking on “Add New” and rename as “Source” and select field type “Static Text” with appropriate value in the Text editor (see screenshots below). Also, be sure that the data mappings are configured correctly after the load fields.

7. Verify the settings and mappings on the Data Map tab.

8. The Key Definition fields should be pre-populated based on the information from the DFX import file. Ensure that the Key Definition field (GUID) is set.

9. The final configuration step is to schedule the data feed. Click the Run Configuration tab and configure the frequency and start time of the Data Feed.

10. Click Save to apply your configuration to the data feed. Click on Run Now to run the data feed immediately. Click the data feed status (Completed/Faulted/Warning etc) link for additional information on the status of the feed or to troubleshoot any feed errors.

Certification environment

Date tested: July 2024