ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel

The American National Standards Institute's Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP) has as its mission to identify existing consensus standards, or, if none exist, assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and those sectors requesting assistance to accelerate development and adoption of consensus standards critical to homeland security. The ANSI-HSSP promotes a positive, cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors in order to meet the needs of the nation in this critical area. Recent News Items Overview Participation Organizational Structure Meeting Calendar Document Library Further Resources Membership in ANSI Staff Contacts

Recent News Items

• ASIS Organizational Resilience Standard Implementation Course
  Organizational resilience management is an increasingly complex challenge. Companies must manage risks and assure resilience by identifying potential threats, assessing risks, and implementing measures to prevent, respond to, and recover from disruptive incidents. Make your organization and supply chain more resilient. Learn how to implement and conduct internal audits to the ASIS Organizational Resilience American National Standard: Security, Preparedness, and Continuity Management Systems (ASIS SPC.1—2009).
  There will be a course held July 15-17 in Alexandria, VA and July 29-31 in San Francisco, CA.

• ANSI and ISA Invite Stakeholders to Discuss Financial Impact of Cyber Risk
  The American National Standards Institute and the Internet Security Alliance invite all interested stakeholders to participate in a July 31, 2009, meeting to discuss Phase II of The Financial Impact of Cyber Risk: 50 Questions Every CFO Should Ask.

• ANSI-HSSP Releases Workshop Report on Emergency Preparedness for Persons with Disabilities

• Japanese Industrial Standards Committee Seeks Participation in International Workshop on Public Warning

• ANSI-HSSP Workshop Examines Urgent Needs in Transit Security Standardization

• ANSI-HSSP Workshop Spotlights Emergency Preparedness Needs for Persons with Disabilities

Established by ANSI in February 2003, per its charter the ANSI-HSSP has as its scope to catalog, promote, accelerate and coordinate the timely development of consensus standards within the national and international voluntary standards systems intended to meet identified homeland security needs, and communicate the existence of such standards appropriately to governmental units and the private sector. The Panel supports the work of the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate’s Office of Standards.

Participation in the ANSI-HSSP is open to representatives of industry, government, professional societies, trade associations, standards developers, and consortia groups directly involved in U.S. Homeland Security standardization.

The roster of Panel Participants is posted for information. Members of the ANSI-HSSP Steering Committee are listed in bold.

Any organization wishing to become a Panel Participant should contact the ANSI-HSSP Program Administrator (jcarl@ansi.org 212-642-4903) for further details on how to join.

ANSI-HSSP officers:

Co-Chair (private-sector):
Christian Dubay
Vice President and Chief Engineer
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

Co-Chair (public-sector):
Gordon Gillerman
Conformity Assessment Advisor for Homeland Security
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Efforts are ongoing examining standardization in the following workshop areas:

• Cyber Security Phase II
• Emergency Preparedness for Persons with Disabilities and Special Needs
• Credentialing and Access Control for Disaster Management
• Transit Security

Final deliverables have been produced for the following workshops:

• Cyber Security
• Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina
• Emergency Communications
• Perimeter Security
• Enterprise Power Security and Continuity
• Training Program Standardization for First Response to WMD Events
• Private Sector Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity
• Biometrics
• Biological and Chemical Threat Agents
• Citizen Preparedness

• A workshop on Emergency Preparedness for Persons with Disabilities and Special Needs was held February 3-4, 2009 at the Kellogg Conference Center at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.

• A workshop on Transit Security Standardization was held January 27-28, 2009 at the Executive Conference Center in Arlington, VA.

• The seventh Plenary meeting was held on October 2, 2008 at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC.

• The sixth Plenary meeting was held October 3-4, 2007 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, in conjunction with the World Standards Council (WSC) International Workshop on Transit Security.

The The ANSI-HSSP Document Library contains documents relating to the work of the Panel and are available to Panel Participants.

• ReadyClassroom
• Citizen Preparedness
• Public Sector Resources
• Private Sector Resources
• International Resources

If you are not already a member of ANSI, find out more about the benefits of ANSI membership.

Karen Hughes
Director, ANSI-HSSP
American National Standards Institute
25 West 43rd Street, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10036
Tel: 212.642.4992
Fax: 212.398.0023
E-mail: khughes@ansi.org

Jessica Carl
Program Administrator, ANSI-HSSP
American National Standards Institute
25 West 43rd Street, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10036
Tel: 1.212.642.4903
Fax: 1.212.840.2298
E-mail: jcarl@ansi.org