Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and Homeland Security (HS)

Additional Resources

ANSIR (FBI's Awareness of National Security Issues and Response program)

CCIPS (DOJ's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section)

Center for Infrastructure Expertise (NI²) - Expertise Library

CERT Coordination Center Summaries: Each quarter, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) issues the CERT summary to draw attention to the types of attacks reported to the incident response team, as well as other noteworthy incident and vulnerability information. The summary includes pointers to sources of information for dealing with the problems.

CIAO (Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office)

Critical Infrastructure Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

Department of Commerce CIP (press release)

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

FAQs: the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Draft 24REV2) (Dec 1, 2000)

FCC Homeland Security Policy Council (HSPC)

GSC (Global Standards Collaboration) : The GSC is comprised of senior representatives of the world?s leading radio and telecommunications standards organizations and provides the opportunity for participating telecommunications standards bodies to share information on their respective work activities, thus fostering cooperation, coordination and the introduction of new telecommunications technologies worldwide. Areas of particular emphasis (e.g., High Interest Subjects) include Next Generation Networks and broadband mobile communication for public safety and emergency services (i.e., PPDR). Such aspects include emergency telecommunications and network security issues.

Information Survivability for CIP (Univ. of Virginia)

Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS) (Dartmouth College)

Internet Security Alliance : an association of member organizations centered around information security issues

ISAC-Telecommunications : The Information Sharing and Analysis Center for Telecommunications Sector (NCS)

ISAC-World Wide : (World Wide Information Sharing and Analysis Center)

ISEC (Information Security Exploratory Committee)

ITAA (Information Infrastructure Assurance Committee)

NCSA (National Cyber Security Alliance)

NIPC (FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center)

NIPC Cyber Threat and Computer Intrusion Incident Reporting Form

NSI (National Security Institute's "Security Resource Net")

NSTAC (National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee)

NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration)

OCIPEP (Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness) -- Canada

PCIS (Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security)

Presidential Executive Order: Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Information Age, including authorization for the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC)

TRC (The Terrorism Research Center)

TIA information regarding "Lawful Interception" and CALEA Packet Surveillance.

Cyber Corps This program will address the shortage of highly skilled computer science expertise in the government and will enable agencies to recruit a cadre of experts to respond to attacks on computer networks. Cyber Corps will examine new scholarship programs to retrain, retain and recruit computer science students. However, many security experts say the president's proposals don't go far enough. Fred Schneider, a security expert and professor of computer sciences at Cornell University, was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle as stating, "Power systems, telecommunications and e-commerce are all vulnerable to a host of problems ?" He also warned, "It is possible, using the Internet, to take out sections of the power grid and telecommunications."

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