The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.
Natural Hazards/Climate Change
FEMA recently published a Recovery Advisory report “Reducing ‘Loss of Utility’ Impacts to Critical Facilities,” to provide considerations and guidance to emergency managers as well as critical infrastructure owners and operators to help reduce operational impacts to infrastructure during emergencies, focusing specifically on supporting critical facilities during disasters.
Coastal communities in eight locations along the East and West coasts experienced record high tide flooding last year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The data reflects the increasing frequency of high tide flooding across the U.S., due to continued sea level rise that is driven in part by climate change. Additionally, NOAA predicts more high tide flooding over the next year given the effects of a strengthening of El Niño.
As a testament to the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season having arrived, two tropical storms are impacting or will soon impact parts of the U.S. In south Texas, Tropical Storm Harold made landfall earlier today. And in the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Franklin is expected to bring heavy rainfall to Puerto Rico, although it is not forecast to make landfall on the island.
The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.
Natural Hazards/Climate Change
August 22, 2023
Despite being the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years and breaking daily rain totals in places, Hilary caused only minimal critical infrastructure impacts. With the situation not as serious as anticipated and response and recovery needs being met, CISA and FEMA announced they have canceled the ESF-14 Cross-Sector Business and Infrastructure Coordination Calls.
The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.
Natural Hazards/Climate Change
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has just released the Infrastructure Resilience Planning Framework (IRPF) Launchpoint, which is intended as a tool to help critical infrastructure operators and other stakeholders quickly determine how the IRPF can best support resilience planning.
The IRPF Launchpoint is designed to help users:
The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.
Natural Hazards/Climate Change
WaterISAC is excited to announce that registration for this year’s H2OSecCon - Surging Toward Safety & Security event is now open. This virtual conference on IT and OT cybersecurity, physical security, and resilience is being hosted over two days October 19 - 20. Each day will begin at 10 AM ET and feature water utility and security experts sharing their experiences and best practices across 14 different sessions and panels on two tracks.
Topics will cover items including:
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