Kolasky: Upcoming DHS-industry meeting will advance work on cyber critical functions list

Robert Kolasky, director of the DHS National Risk Management Center, said the department will host a “workshop” next week with representatives of all sixteen core industry sectors, to expand and refine a “preliminary” list of national critical functions drafted with input from the telecommunications, energy and financial services industries.

Kolasky said a Dec. 11-12 meeting of the Critical Infrastructure Cross-Sector Council will be used by the Department of Homeland Security to get industry input on the preliminary list, which he...