ISCD Publishes 2018 Regional Meeting Presentations

Today the DHS Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD) published a notice on the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) landing page that ‘select presentations’ from the 2018 Regional Meetings are available on the Chemical Sector Regional Event Presentations page.

Five presentations are available:

• NPPD Voluntary Programs;

• CFATS Compliance Lessons Learned and Guideposts;

• CFATS Frequently Asked Questions;

• IP Regional Service Delivery Model; and

• Security of Soft Targets and Crowded Places – Resource Guide

After a quick review of each of the slide sets, it is easy to tell that there is worthwhile information available just reviewing the slides. Unfortunately, if the presenters were worth anything at all (and I expect that they were well prepared), then the oral presentation provided a lot more information, clarification and insight. Unfortunately, not everyone has a travel budget that allowed for attending a regional meeting; this is why I have advocated for the use of either video conferencing or at least video recording the key presentations at meetings such as this.

I was disappointed that two presentations were not included in the selection published today. The ones that I was also hoping to see were:

• Cybersecurity Capability Overview; and

• Malicious Use of Drones