The Department of Homeland Security has stood up a successor to the critical infrastructure partnership system it dismantled 15 months ago.
The move restores a formal channel for government and industry to discuss cyber and physical threats. The new advisory structure is the Alliance of National Councils for Homeland Operational Resilience – Critical Infrastructure (ANCHOR-CI).
The new charter also drops the CIPAC feature industry valued most. Specifically, the former council extended liability protections to participants, giving executives confidence to discuss incidents in group settings without antitrust or regulatory exposure. The DHS filing establishing ANCHOR-CI omits those protections.
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Errol Weiss, chief security officer at the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), flagged the gap. The government, he said, must address the legal exposures that keep companies from discussing sensitive cyber incidents. Industry leaders, he noted, counted on the protections built into CIPAC to hold candid, strategic conversations about vulnerabilities.
