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Water System Security National Activities

Water System Security National Activities . AWWA WebCast - May 9, 2002. Diane VanDe Hei Executive Director Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies AWWA Security Webcast May 9, 2002. Critical Foundations. Protecting America’s Infrastructures The Report of the President’s

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Water System Security National Activities

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  1. Water System Security National Activities AWWA WebCast - May 9, 2002 Diane VanDe Hei Executive Director Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies AWWA Security Webcast May 9, 2002

  2. Critical Foundations • Protecting America’s Infrastructures • The Report of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection

  3. Eight Critical Infrastructures • Banking and Finance • Oil and Gas • Telecommunications • Electric Power • Water Supply • Emergency Services • Information Technology • Transportation

  4. Water Sector Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD 63) - May 1998 • Goals: • Assure continuity and viability of critical infrastructure • Swiftly eliminate significant vulnerability to both physical and cyber attacks • Identified 8 critical sectors, including the Water Sector • EPA is the lead federal agency for Water Sector • EPA named AMWA as Sector Coordinator • Strongly encourages private sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC)

  5. Water Sector (con’t) • Bush Executive Order 13231 • October 16, 2001 • Expands on PDD 63 • Establishes “Presidential Critical Infrastructure Protection Board”

  6. Overview of Federal Involvement Agencies involved: • Office of Homeland Security (OHS) • Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO) • FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  7. Federal Security Efforts White House Dept. of Commerce FBI EPA Office of Homeland Security (T. Ridge) National Security Council (C. Rice) Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (J. Tritak) National Infrastructure Protection Center (R. Dick) Water Protection Task Force (Janet Pawlukiewicz) Critical Infrastructure Protection Board (Richard Clarke) Water Sector Coordinator (AMWA) CIP Board Staff - NSC, OMB, and CIAO

  8. CIP Advisory Group • AMWA formed Critical InfrastructureProtection Advisory Group (CIPAG) • Established January 2001 • 10 members from public/private utilities and state administrator offices • Liaisons from EPA, FBI (NIPC), state administrators and other national drinkingwater and wastewater associations

  9. CIPAG Goals • Coordinate and integrate efforts on critical infrastructure protection issues • Develop policy and project recommendations on water and wastewater security needs • Assess security needs for water systems • Coordinate with other sectors

  10. Challenges • Conduct vulnerability assessments • Need better threat information • Revise Emergency Response Plans • Federal FOIA and local/state sunshine laws • Understanding interdependencies • Address security in new designs and upgrades

  11. Water ISAC Objectives • Disseminate early warnings of physical and cyber system threats • Share security incident information between water utilities • Provide trending and other analysis for security planning • Distribute current proven security practices and suggestions

  12. Water ISAC Features • Highly secure, Internet-based communications tool • Available to all drinking water and wastewater utilities • Ready access to water security information • Timely advisories and alerts of regional and national interest

  13. ISAC: Key Questions • What functionality should the ISAC include? • What type of info should be included? • What are the critical sources of info? • What analyses and interpretation should be done? • How to communicate between ISAC members?

  14. Possible ISAC Models • Implementation from scratch • Contract with a secure service provider that hosts these types of portals • Contract with secure service provider that hosts portal and provides analysis • Develop a government – to – business partnership

  15. ISAC: Key Decisions • ISAC model and implementation plan • Establishment of governance structure • Membership requirements, fees and verification process • Development of Business Plan • Marketing and Promotion

  16. Water ISAC Status • EPA helping to fund ISAC development • AMWA managing implementation project • Support and input provided by water and wastewater utilities, EPA, States, CDC and Sandia National Laboratories • Next step: Implementation of design

  17. Water ISAC Information • Visit www.amwa.net/ISAC • E-mail WaterISAC@amwa.net • Call 202-331-2820

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