http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/04/17/resilience-theme-dominates-cap-panel-new-report-outlines-hls-strategy/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:37:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/04/17/resilience-theme-dominates-cap-panel-new-report-outlines-hls-strategy/#comment-101950 William R. Cumming Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:31:35 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/04/17/resilience-theme-dominates-cap-panel-new-report-outlines-hls-strategy/#comment-101950 Amanda Dory's 2003 study of resilency and need to overcome former civil defense stereotypes entitled "Civil Security" and published by CSIS should not be overlooked in any discussion of this subject. One of the interesting things about her study and the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection 1997 report is that both suggested a bottom up approach, not a top down. In particular, where no systems or technology is developed or even evented, resiliency needs to be built in from the beginning. Many legacy residual operating systems unfortunatelyn will never be capable of being made resilient. Interesting how it took four major hurricanes, and 20,000 telephone poles for the US Virgin Islands to decide to bury utilities, even when Uncle was paying for it. Some remarkable blast and heat protection studies were done under the former Federal Civil Defense Program. Interesting which companies accessed those studies, Boeing, e.g. And there was a tax credit. Why not a tax credit for resiliency of critical operating systems now? Or that's right it might stimulate the economy. Amanda Dory’s 2003 study of resilency and need to overcome former civil defense stereotypes entitled “Civil Security” and published by CSIS should not be overlooked in any discussion of this subject. One of the interesting things about her study and the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection 1997 report is that both suggested a bottom up approach, not a top down. In particular, where no systems or technology is developed or even evented, resiliency needs to be built in from the beginning. Many legacy residual operating systems unfortunatelyn will never be capable of being made resilient. Interesting how it took four major hurricanes, and 20,000 telephone poles for the US Virgin Islands to decide to bury utilities, even when Uncle was paying for it. Some remarkable blast and heat protection studies were done under the former Federal Civil Defense Program. Interesting which companies accessed those studies, Boeing, e.g. And there was a tax credit. Why not a tax credit for resiliency of critical operating systems now? Or that’s right it might stimulate the economy.

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