The American Water Works Association (AWWA) has announced the release of the new Water Sector Resource Typing Guidance, which it developed in collaboration with FEMA. The new guidance replaces the 2008 AWWA Water/Wastewater Mutual Aid and Resource Typing Manual.
As noted in the October 31 Security and Resilience Update, November is Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, a time intended to highlight the vital role that critical infrastructure systems and places play in keeping the nation and its communities safe, secure, and prosperous.
Today, FEMA announced the release of the “National Response Framework, Fourth Edition” and the “Emergency Support Function #14 – Cross-Sector Business and Infrastructure Annex.” The updates to the National Response Framework, or NRF, and the creation of Emergency Support Function, or ESF, #14 are intended to incorporate lessons learned from the nation’s experiences with hurricanes and wildfires in 2017.
November is Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, a time intended to shine a light on the vital role that these systems and places play in keeping the nation and communities safe, secure, and prosperous. In its message to the private sector as Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month is set to begin, the U.S.
Yesterday, FBI Director Christopher Wray and National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Acting Director Russell Travers provided testimony to the U.S House Homeland Security Committee on “Global Terrorism: Threats to the Homeland.” Speaking to one of the latest developments regarding the domestic extremist threat, Wray said that violent, racially motivated extremists in the U.S. are connecting with foreign extremists, with some traveling abroad to train. He also stated that many extremists in the U.S. continue to be inspired by what they see happening overseas.
On Sunday, the White House announced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State, had been killed in a U.S.-led operation in Syria over the weekend. The death of al-Baghdadi will have significant implications for the infamous terrorist group, as both the Trump administration and many counterterrorism experts insist.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has created a “Disaster Resilience Framework” to support analysis of federal opportunities to facilitate and promote resilience to natural hazards. Recognizing the gravity of the effect of natural disasters on the American people and the fiscal exposure it creates, this Framework provides a set of high-level principles to help those who have responsibility for oversight and management of federal efforts to consider actions they might take to increase resilience to natural hazards.
The National Security Agency (NSA) and the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have released a joint advisory (available below) on advanced persistent threat (APT) group Turla – widely reported to be Russian. The advisory provides an update to NCSC’s January 2018 report on Turla’s use of the malicious Neuron, Nautilus, and Snake tools to steal sensitive data.
On Sunday, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced it may have to perform another round of public safety power shutoffs (PSPSs) later this week due to forecasted extreme weather and dry conditions.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its outlook for the coming winter season, in which it anticipates warmer-than-average temperatures for much of the U.S. and wetter-than-average conditions in the northern U.S. The outlook also forecasts some improvement to the drought currently being experienced in the Southeast, which developed rapidly during the summer and early fall. With the record-setting cold temperatures from last year perhaps still in the minds of those who experienced them, NOAA notes that no part of the U.S.
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