DA 20-77 
January 15, 2020

PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU ANNOUNCES UPDATES TO THE COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY, RELIABILITY, AND INTEROPERABILITY COUNCIL BEST PRACTICES DATABASE

By this Public Notice, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) announces that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) Best Practices database has been updated.  At its December 10, 2019, quarterly meeting, CSRIC VII unanimously approved an update to the database that includes best practices from CSRIC VI (addressing communications network security, emergency preparedness, and disaster recovery) and retires best practices that have become obsolete.  
CSRIC’s mission is to provide recommendations to the FCC regarding ways the FCC can strive for security, reliability, and interoperability of communications systems. FCC, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council VII, https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/advisory-committees/communications-security-reliability-and-interoperability-council-vii-0  (last visited Jan. 8, 2020).
  These recommendations routinely include best practices for industry and public safety organizations.  The FCC maintains a searchable database of these best practices on its website.  When CSRIC recommends new best practices, the FCC updates the database accordingly, including the retiring of any older best practices that have been superseded. Retired best practices are preserved in the database but are noted as no longer applicable.
  
The CSRIC Best Practices database can be accessed on the FCC website at https://opendata.fcc.gov/Public-Safety/CSRIC-Best-Practices/qb45-rw2t/data.  More information about CSRIC can be found at https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/advisory-committees/communications-security-reliability-and-interoperability-council-vii.  For additional information, contact Suzon Cameron, Designated Federal Official (DFO) for CSRIC VII, PSHSB, at (202) 418-1916; Kurian Jacob, Deputy DFO, for CSRIC VII, PSHSB, at (202) 418-2040; or the CSRIC e-mail account at csric@fcc.gov. 

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