Today DHS announced in the Federal Register (77 FR 59203-59204)
that the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council would be holding
a public meeting on October 3rd, 2012 in Washington, D.C. CIPAC
represents a partnership between the Federal Government and critical
infrastructure owners and operators and provides a forum in which they can
engage in a broad spectrum of activities to support and coordinate critical
infrastructure protection.
Agenda
This meeting will focus on efforts to enhance critical
infrastructure resiliency. Topics will include:
• Physical and Cyber Critical
Infrastructure Protection;
• Industrial Control Systems
Security;
• Opportunities in Mitigating Aging
U.S Infrastructure;
• Social Media's Role in Critical Infrastructure;
and
• Critical Infrastructure Program
Updates
It is interesting to see that ICS security is receiving
special mention as a topic separate from cybersecurity. This is extremely
unusual for a general topic advisory panel such as this. Since this is an open
forum I wouldn’t expect that there will be anything new mentioned on threat
information, but it will be interesting to see how industry representatives
approach this topic in this venue.
Public Participation
The public is invited to observe the Council’s
deliberations. Advance registration to attend is not required; there will be
registration at the door. Public oral comments on the topics above will be
limited to a 30 minute public comment period at the end of the meeting, with
each speaker being limited to 3 minutes. Speaker order will be determined by
registration sequence.
Apparently there are no provisions being made to web cast
this meeting; DHS certainly needs to work on this area of their information
sharing. Opening the CIPAC meetings to a wider audience would do much to
alleviate publicly expressed concerns about this panel being a method of giving
special interests (industry) private access to DHS>
Written comments on the topics may be submitted via the
Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov;
Docket # DHS-2012-0051).
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