New Article on CFATS Knowledge Center

Yesterday the folks at ISCD updated their CFATS Knowledge Center web site, adding a note under the ‘Latest News’ heading and adding an article to the list of frequently asked questions. Both items provided information about the 2011 Chemical Sector Security Summit.

The note under ‘Latest News’ states:

“Registration Open for 2011 Chemical Security Summit, July 6-7, 2011, Hilton Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. Go to http://guest.cvent.com/d/rdqt3v for Summit information and registration. Due to space constraints, each organization, company, and agency will be limited to two (2) registrants. There is no registration fee associated with this year’s event. See the article 2011 Chemical Sector Security Summit for additional information.”

The referenced article is Article # 1720 (Sorry, the link I copied yesterday for this article does not work today due to a 'checksum' error). That article provides some of the basic information on the CSSS including links to the registration site, and the CSSS web site. None of this information is new, it can all be found on the CSSS web site and was discussed here on this blog back in late March.

This is the first time that ISCD has included information on the CSSS on the Knowledge Center. Okay, the Knowledge Center was started the week before last year’s CSSS so that doesn’t really mean much. The fact that there was never a FAQ concerning the CSSS is also relatively meaningless as this is an ‘Article’ not a FAQ (same numbering system different format).

I suppose that I shouldn’t complain about an additional source of information about the CSSS, but I do have a couple of problems with the way that this was done. First, since there is already a web site for the CSSS I don’t really think that an article is necessary. The note under the ‘Latest News’ heading was a good idea, but it probably should have just included a link to the CSSS web site instead of the registration site.