Today the DHS Infrastructure Security Compliance
Division (ISCD) published their CFATS Update for the month of October. As we
have been seeing for the last year or so there is a steady increase in the
number of CFATS facilities that have an authorized or approved Site Security
Plan (SSP).
October’s rate is slower than August and September
but that almost certainly reflects the variability of the facilities that are
having their programs evaluated. Each facility has a unique security situation
and plan that must be evaluated on its own merits; some facilities take more
time than others to properly evaluate.
An interesting note this month; we have stopped the
steady decline in the number of facilities covered by the CFATS program that we
have been seeing since November. We actually had 7 more facilities on November
1st than we did on October 1st. Still no information
about what is driving the changes in numbers. This month we can positively say
that there were more new facilities added than dropped off, but still no
indication of how many actually dropped off or why.
ISCD is still not telling us anything about the
number of facilities that have undergone compliance inspections or how many
have passed or failed those inspections. That will be the next item of
Congressional interest.
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