Security Board Objectives

• To assist in the definition of the impact of a catastrophic event, so that appropriate resources can be assigned to develop and implement recovery strategies.
• To work with government agencies and private industry to ensure that businesses and critical governmental agencies can recover from a security breach or an interruption to business operations in a rapid and coordinated manner.
• To work with governmental agencies in order to establish auditable regulation governing information protection, security and business continuity for individual companies, government agencies and selected industries.
• To manage a crisis communications database that government and private industry can utilize at the time of a crisis situation. Also to be a clearinghouse for products and services that organizations can utilize in putting a program together to meet regulatory requirements.
• To create work plan templates that can be used locally, regionally and nationally, which will provide the framework for a repeatable data collection and analysis process that will benefit national security
• To establish a crisis management database that can be used as a repository for this projects information, enabling senior officials to make critical decisions based on the completed analysis.
• To ensure that industry-wide research and development is done so that the Security and Continuity / Availability vendors understand the needs of government and private industry which can influence product and service offering development.
• To support the continued growth of the industry and to act as a facilitator in certain cases to bring interested parties together to develop and implement a solution.