Connections, Volume 1, Number 2, February 2015 Page: 3
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ECAC subcommittee work is wrapping up
Three subcommittees that
have been working since
last fall will present their
recommendations to the
Emergency Communications
Advisory Committee (ECAC) this
month regarding key elements of
the CSEC State-level ESInet. The
ECAC then will present policies/
standards to the Commission for
adoption.
Each subcommittee consists of
members representing regional
planning commissions (RPCs),
emergency communications
districts (ECDs), municipal ECDs,
and a variety of vendors and
subject matter experts (SMEs).
The Security subcommittee has been
working to build consensus and will
recommend an agreed-upon policy
document to the ECAC that identifies
relevant security principles applicable
to the operation of the CSEC State-
level ESInet.The policy will be based on numerous existing stand-
ards and policies industrywide, including the National
Emergency Number Association (NENA) Security for
Next-Generation 9-1-1 Standard (NG-SEC), several
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
information security standards, and the Texas Admin-
istrative Code, Chapter 202, which also addresses
information security standards.
One of the subcommittee's primary goals is to
create a policy that will help users of the CSEC State-
level ESInet prevent cyber attacks that could affect
the operability of the network and the ability to
handle 9-1-1 calls.
Specific security principles include the following:
" Prevent cyber attacks and incidents against the
CSEC State-level ESInet.
" Reduce the CSEC State-level ESInet's vulnerabil-
ity to cyber attacks and other disruptions.
" Respond and recover to minimize the impact of
successful cyber attacks and disruptions.
The final draft is expected to be voted upon by
the middle of February.
Continued on page 4Readiness Assessments Continue in February
The assessment
process that will
ensure entities
intending to participate
in the CSEC State-level
ESInet are adequately
prepared for the first
phase-which involves
establishing network
connectivity-continues
this month.
The effort is being made
in coordination with
CSEC staff, the regional
planning commissions
(RPCs), the systems
integrator and subject-
matter experts.
Survey preparation
began in January and willcontinue in February. The
purpose of the assessments
is to gather and/or validate
information regarding cus-
tomer premises equipment
(CPE), uninterruptible power
supplies (UPS), and network
routers installed in public
safety answering points
(PSAPs) and other entities.
The data-gathering effort will
take about 4-6 weeks to
complete.
Once the data gathering is
complete, an assessment
of findings and a gap analy-
sis will be performed to
identify any upgrades or
system enhancements that
will need to be executed inorder for each participant
to connect to the CSEC
State-level ESInet. The
assessment and gap analy-
sis also is expected to take
4-6 weeks to conduct.
In addition, a financial
analysis and educational
outreach will be conducted
to define what participating
in the statewide network
will entail.
Looking to the future, Phase
II of the project-scheduled
for fiscal year 2016-2017-
calls for PSAPs connected to
the CSEC State-level ESInet to
leverage NG9-1-1-enabled
intelligent call-handling
technology..The assessmentprocess
is designed to ensure
that PSAPs connecting
to Phase I of the CSEC
State-level ESInet will
be read to do so.Because i3 isprimarily
focused on applications,
it was imperative for the
Network subcommittee
to also consider other
standards that focus on
infrastructure.EC
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