FCC Plans for CSRIC V, Nominations Due March 31

The FCC intends to recharter the Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) for a fifth two-year term (CSRIC V) when the council’s current term (CSRIC IV) ends March 18. CSRIC V may tackle 911 service, emergency alerts, mobile device security, national security communications resilience, and VoIP and broadband security, the FCC said Thursday. Nominations for CSRIC V are due March 31, the FCC said. CSRIC IV is to consider several final reports from its working groups at its March 18 meeting, including one from Working Group 4 on recommendations for communications sector cybersecurity best practices adapted in part from the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework.