Yesterday the DHS Infrastructure Security Compliance
Division (ISCD) updated the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS)
program landing
page. Most of the changes are related to providing links to the recently
issued fact sheets that have been previously discussed here. The one major
change is that links have been provided to a new version of the Chemical
Security Assessment Tool (CSAT) 2.0 user
manual. The manual is dated February 28th, 2018, but the page linking to
it is dated March 5th, 2018. The last time that I
noticed a change to this manual was in March of last year.
Unfortunately, ISCD has long since stopped putting management
of change information about the new versions of their manuals and have even
stopped assigning version numbers. This certainly complicates things for users
(and reviewers) of these manuals. Doing a detailed review of the two Table of
Contents it does not appear that there were any significant changes made in the
latest version of this manual. Having said that, CFATS covered facilities will
want to have the latest version on hand and I would keep an historical copy of
the version that was used the last time that I made changes to any CFATS
submission document.
NOTE 1: We are now a full week into March and ISCD has still
not updated their CFATS Monthly
Status page.
NOTE 2: Earlier this month DHS added a “Critical
Infrastructure: Chemical Security News & Updates” section to the bottom of
the CFATS landing page. This section provides links to newsworthy events in DHS
that have some sort of relevance to chemical security. This has been seen on
other DHS web sites.
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