Presidential council's warnings of power outage offer opportunity for new DHS risk center

The President's National Infrastructure Advisory Council has approved recommendations for responding to and recovering from a massive electric power outage caused by a cyber or physical incident -- or both -- which include a call for the Department of Homeland Security's new risk management center to share widely its work on identifying national critical functions.

The timing of the report's recommendations, approved Thursday by the council, offers DHS' National Risk Management Center a major avenue for promoting and distributing...