National Infrastructure Advisory Council
Get e-mail updates when this information changes
President Bush meets with the members of the NIAC.
The National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) shall provide the President through the Secretary of Homeland Security with advice on the security of the critical infrastructure sectors and their information systems. The council is composed of a maximum of 30 members, appointed by the President from private industry, academia, and state and local government.
About the Council
Mission
Council Membership
Reports and Recommendations
- Insider Threat to Critical Infrastructures Report and Recommendations (04/08) (PDF, 56 pages - 393 KB)
- Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Events and the Critical Infrastructure Workforce Report and Recommendations (01/08) (PDF, 88 pages - 635 KB)
- Prioritization of Critical Infrastructure for a Pandemic Outbreak in the United States (01/07) (PDF, 120 pages - 1.31 MB)
- Convergence of Physical and Cyber Technologies and Related Security Management Challenges (01/07) (PDF, 42 pages - 294 KB)
- Public-Private Sector Intelligence Coordination (07/06) (PDF, 79 pages, 445 KB)
- Workforce Preparation, Education and Research (04/06) (PDF, 208 pages, 7.3 MB)
- Sector Partnership Model Implementation (10/05) (PDF, 52 pages - 502 KB)
- Risk Management Approaches to Protection (10/05) (PDF, 25 pages, 223 KB)
- Common Vulnerability Scoring System (10/04) (PDF, 20 pages - 159 KB)
- Hardening the Internet (10/04) (PDF, 28 pages - 121 KB)
- Prioritizing Cyber Vulnerabilities (10/04) (PDF, 14 pages - 83 KB)
- Evaluation and Enhancement of Information Sharing and Analysis (07/04) (PDF, 22 pages - 211 KB)
- Best Practices for Government Intervention to Enhance the Security of National Critical Infrastructures (03/04) (PDF, 24 pages - 285 KB)
- Cross Sector Interdependencies and Risk Assessment Guidance (01/04) (PDF, 94 pages - 1.1 MB)
- Vulnerability Disclosure Framework (01/04) (PDF, 52 pages - 392 KB)
Meeting Information
- Next Meeting:
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The meeting is at the J.W. Marriot Hotel, Capitol Ballroom (Salon E and F), 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW - Washington, DC 20004. The meeting is open to the public.
Tentative Meetings have been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. for the following dates:
- January 6, 2009 Teleconference
- April 14, 2009 Teleconference
- July 14, 2009 In-Person
- October 13, 2009 In-Person
Please note the time is subject to change. Please contact the NIAC Secretariat NIAC@dhs.gov for location confirmation.
Meeting Resources
Resources for the October 14, 2008 Meeting:
Minutes from Past Meetings
Authorities
Download Plug-in
Some of the links on this page require a plug-in to view them. Links to the plug-ins are available below.
Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
This page was last reviewed/modified on September 11, 2008.