Links

This section contains links to public and private sector sites that will provide the reader with further background on Critical Infrastructure Protection / Homeland Security issues, and Pandemic Flu including organizations involved in activities related to those issues.

Public Sector Links

• FEMA RELEASES ON-LINE TRAINING COURSE FOR THE NATIONAL RESPONSE FRAMEWORK
• Update on Submarine Cable Cut Repairs - Daily Bulletin @ 0900 GMT February 7 2008 [external pdf]
• Update on Submarine Cable Cut - Daily Bulletin @ 0900 GMT February 6 2008 [external pdf]
• Submarine Cable Map [external gif]
• FERC Mandatory Reliability Standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection [external pdf]
• Important Change in International Land and Sea Travel Document Procedures [128 kb pdf]
• An increase in Internet schemes purportedly from the FBI (external link)
• Directory of New York State Criminal Justice Agencies (338 kb pdf)
• Top 10 Overseas Security Trends for the U.S. Private Sector in 2007
• Defense Language Institute (DLI) - Language Training Online - Free
• FFIEC Pandemic Planning Guidance Released [external pdf]
• Email Scam Statement [16.3 kb pdf]
• The International Terrorist Threat to the UK
• MS-ISAC Operations Center
• 2007 REPORT TO CONGRESS of the U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION [external pdf]
• Community-Associated MRSA Information for the Public
• Suburban Emergency Management Project
• National Strategy for Information Sharing (421 kb pdf)
• Personal Internet Security (pdf link)
• Intelligence counter terrorism and trust (948 kb doc)
• Critical Infrastructure Protection: Sector-Specific Plans' Coverage of Key Cyber Security Elements Varies. GAO-08-113, October 31
  Highlights
• Critical Infrastructure Protection: Sector-Specific Plans' Coverage of Key Cyber Security Elements Varies. GAO-08-64T, October 31
  Highlights
• OCC Allows National Bank Offices Affected by Wildfires in Southern California to Close
• Southern California Fire Report
• Interim Commissioner of Financial Institutions Determines that an Extraordinary Situation Exists
• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• The world health report 2007 - A safer future: global public health security in the 21st century
• Secure in the Knowledge - Building a Secure Business
• MPS - Device found in Haymarket
• MPS - Operation Rhyme terror convictions
• FSSCC-FBIIC Pandemic Influenza Exercise Website
• DHS -- Sector-Specific Plans
• NGA -- A Governor's Guide to Homeland Security [PDF 1.66MB]
• Index to the United States Attorneys' Manual
• Combating Identity Theft: A Strategic Plan - Final recommendations released April 23, 2007.
  Strategic Plan [PDF]
  Volume II: Supplemental Information [PDF]
• Interpol: Bioterrorism Incident Pre-Planning & Response Guide - 2007
• New Symbol Launched to Warn Public About Radiation Dangers
• Consumer Alert - Fraudulent E-Mail Claims to Be From the FDIC
• Consumer Protection News: OCC Fighting Identity Theft
• Don't Be an On-line Victim: How to Guard Against Internet Thieves and Electronic Scams
• Treasury Identity Theft Resource Page
• Order Identity Theft: Outsmarting the Crooks (DVD) (Free)
• Onguard Online
• United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
• Threats and Protection - Synthesizing and Disseminating Information (DHS)
• National Communications System (NCS)
• Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC)
• White House

Foreign Public Sector Links

• Netherlands Cybercrime Reporting Center
• Belgium Coordination and Crisis Center
• German Federal Office for Information Security
• United Kingdom: Regulation of VoIP Services: Access to Emerrgency Services
• ENISA- defending the future
• Botnets – The Silent Threat [external pdf]
• Defending Against Attacks [external pdf]
• Switzerland
• European Central Bank
• Switzerland
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Think Paper 11: Trust and Identity in Interactive Services: Technical and Societal Challenges [external pdf]
• Danish Emergency Management Agency
• Security in a Global Hub Establishing the UK’s new border arrangements
• Blackberry in Government - The Government Communications Security Bureau
• Electronic Crime Strategy to 2010
• Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Risk Management Brochure 2007
• Applied Security Technologies (AST)
• A National Information Assurance Strategy
• Make it Secure
• Informationsplattform des Netzwerks Elektronischer Geschäftsverkehr
• B-Brussels: Study on Critical Dependencies of Energy, Finance and Transport Infrastructures on ICT Infrastructures
• B-Brussels: Stock-Taking of Existing Critical Infrastructures Protection Activities
• Green Paper on Bio-Preparedness [pdf 79kb]
• UK Security Service MI5: Threat Levels
• UK Resilience
• London Prepared - Emergency advice for London
• United Kingdom Home Office Speech - "Securing the Critical National Infrastructure"
• Bank of the Netherlands - Business Continuity Planning and Crisis Management
• Bank of England - Financial Stability Report - Issue 21
• Bank of England - A New Approach to Assessing Risks to Financial Stability
• Hungary Ministry of Economy and Transport
  - Az intelligens infrastruktúra feladata - összefoglaló
  - Infokommunikáció: megállíthatatlan konvergencia
  - Magyar Információs Társadalom Stratégia
• Hungarian National Computer Emergency Response Team
• Luxembourg High Commission for National Security, National Committee for Critical Infrastructure(Haut-commissariat à la Protection nationale, Comité national de l'infrastructure critique)
• Luxembourg - Haut-commissariat à la Protection nationale - Infrastructure critique
• Austrian Federal Ministry for Internal Affairs
• (Austrian Security Research Transfer Program of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Progress, Innovation and Technology) österreichische Sicherheitsforschungsförderprogramm, Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie
• Thematischer Schwerpunkt der Aufbauphase
• German Interior Ministry - Protection of Critical Infrastructures
• German Federal Office for Information Security - Critical infrastructures in state and society
• Algemene Directie Crisiscentrum (General Directorate Crisis Center) of the Federal Governmental Service for Internal Affairs of Belgium
• A Framework for Major Emergency Management (see Section 3.4.3), issued by the Republic of Ireland [pdf 1.94mb]
• EU - Information Technology for Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Public Safety Canada
• Netherlands Ministry for Interior Affairs
  - Rapport Bescherming Vitale Infrastructuur
     (Report on the Protection of Vital Infrastructure)
     [pdf 325kb]
  - Pilot Nationaal Adviescentrum Vitale Infrastructuren
    (Pilot National Advice Center on Vital Infrastructures)
     [pdf 62kb]
  - Voortgangsbrief Bescherming Vitale Infrastructuur
    (Progress Report on the Protection of Vital Infrastructure)
     [pdf 260kb]
  - Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Netherlands
     [pdf 38kb]
  
• UK - Financial Sector Continuity (FSC)
• UK - Center for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)
• EPCIP - European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection
  - Identification and Designation, and Assessment
     [pdf 95kb]
  - Communication from the Commission [pdf 49kb]
  - Green Paper [pdf 220kb]
  - Protecting Europe's Critical Energy and Transport Infrastructure    [pdf 1010kb]

Foreign Private Sector Links

• APACS - Payment Fraud
• Critical Infrastructure of the Netherlands
• Swiss Reporting and Analysis Center for Information Assurance
• Information Security in Swiss Companies [pdf 389 kb]
• German Bankers' Association "Management of Critical Infrastructure"

Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council (FSSCC) Links
FSSCC Website

• American Bankers Association
• America's Community Bankers
• American Council of Life Insurers
• American Insurance Association
• American Society for Industrial Security
• American Stock Exchange LLC/NASD
• Bank Administration Institute (BAI)
• BITS and Financial Services Roundtable
• Consumer Bankers Association
• Credit Union National Association
• Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC)
• Futures Industry Association
• Independent Community Bankers of America
• Investment Company Institute
• NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc
• National Association of Federal Credit Unions
• National Automated Clearinghouse Association
• New York Clearing House
• Securities Industry Association
• Security Industry Automation Corporation
• The Bond Market Association
• UK Financial Sector Continuity

Hurricane Fay

• FEMA OPB Future Outlook
• Unified Command Incident Situation Report 08/21/08 at 1600 hrs EDT
• NOAA Tropical Storm Fay 1100L 08/21/08
• Unified Command Incident Situation Report 08/21/08 at 1000 hrs EDT
• Unified Command Incident Situation Report
• OCC Allows National Bank Offices Affected by Hurricane Fay to Close
• Office Closing Proclamation - TS/Hurricane Fay

Pandemic Flu Public Sector Links

• Belgium Interministerial Coordination Committee on Influenza
• Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Implemented by US Cities During the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic
• Antiviral Oseltamivir Is not Removed or Degraded in Normal Sewage Water Treatment: Implications for Development of Resistance by Influenza A Virus
• 5th International Bird Flu Summit
• FBIIC/FSSCC Pandemic Flu Exercise of 2007
• Business Preparedness for Pandemic
• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza - Europe Summer 2007

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