U.S. Department Of Homeland Security

Pipeline & Gas Journal, March, 2007

New training is available from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection. A web-based course-Introduction to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) (IS-860)-was developed jointly by the DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management institute. DHS says it provides an orientation regarding key concepts of the NIPP and is designed to meet training needs of a wide range of government and private sector security partners involved in implementing infrastructure protection programs. The course addresses the importance of protecting critical infrastructure and key resources and provides an overview of key concepts of the NIPP, including the risk-management framework, the partnership model designed to facilitate coordination and cooperation between infrastructure owners and operators and the government, the networked approach to information sharing, and the new risk-based approach to resource allocation. Course number IS-860, http://training.fema. gov/EMIWeb/IS/crslist. asp.

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