New National Infrastructure Protection Plan Released

A new version of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) was released yesterday.

I’ve extracted and attached the full Table of Contents (4 pages) and the Executive Summary (6 pages) as separate documents. Both are worth reading, if only to identify the parts of the full document you may want to read more closely. For a super-compact summary, I’ve included a short excerpt from the Preface, and a list of the major sections of the document in this post.

Event: PS-Prep Public Meeting #2

The second of 2 public meetings on PS-Prep, a new DHS voluntary preparedness accreditation and certification program for the private sector, will be held on Monday February 23. I plan to attend this meeting, and I’ll post an entry after the meeting.

Overview of Napolitano’s Action Directives

In her first 10 days in office, new Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has issued 12 “action directives” focused on specific homeland security areas. Here’s an overview of all the action directives, including their purpose and a brief look at what they may indicate for Homeland Security policy in the Obama administration.

Obama pushes security upgrades for seaports & emergency communications

From Government Security News: President Obama’s radio and Internet address Jan 24 specifically mentioned strengthening security at the nation’s seaports and improving first responder communications as areas targeted by the economic recovery plan – and thus likely to receive federal funding in the short term.

DHS lessons learned from Mumbai attacks

DHS Under Secretary Charles Allen (DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis) testified Friday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, discussing both the lessons DHS learned from the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and the information sharing efforts of DHS with regard to the attacks. See full post for highlights and links.

DHS cybersecurity proposals more modest than DNI comments suggested

From HS Daily Wire:
Earlier this year Director of U.S. National Intelligence Mike McConnell said the government would require broad powers to monitor all Internet traffic in order to secure the U.S. critical information infrastructure; DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff outlines a more modest approach.
Earlier this year, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told the New Yorker [...]

House bills focus on improved information sharing

A couple bills in the House intended to promote information sharing.  Both have passed in the House, but haven’t yet passed in the Senate.
[Update 10/09: See also: Seven Years after 9/11, Spies Finally Forced to Share - If nothing else, the photo posted with the article is worth a smile]

1. H.R. 3815, Homeland Security Open [...]