Membership Application

Corporate Membership Application

The primary mission of the Communications Sector Coordinating Council (CSCC) is to bring together companies, associations, and other key Communications sector participants to discuss sector security issues and engage with the public and private sectors in all areas of critical infrastructure protection.  The CSCC works with its government partners to protect the Nation’s communications Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) from harm and to ensure that the Nation’s communications networks and systems are secure, resilient, and rapidly restored after a natural or manmade disaster.  In carrying out this mission, the CSCC’s goals are to:

  • Protect and enhance the overall physical and logical/cyber health of communications;
  • Rapidly reconstitute critical communications services in the event of disruption and mitigate cascading effects; 
  • Improve the sector’s National Security/Emergency Preparedness posture with Federal, State, Local, Tribal, Territorial, and private sector entities to reduce risk.

The members of the CSCC broadly represent the sector and include cable, commercial and public broadcasters, information service providers, satellite, undersea cable, utility telecom providers, service integrators, equipment vendors, and wireless and wireline owners and operators and their respective trade associations. The Communications Sector Coordinating Council (CSCC) meets regularly to review industry and government actions on critical infrastructure protection priorities and cross sector issues. The CSCC coordinates with industry participants in the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and the Communications-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Comm-ISAC) to:

  • Develop sector recommendations for preparedness and incident response and recovery plans based on the experience of members of the sector.
  • Participate in the development of sound practices and lessons learned associated with Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) activities or incidents.
  • Identify or participate in activities involving vulnerabilities, interdependencies, risk assessments and risk management methodologies (including vulnerability remediation and policy enforcement) with respect to CIP.
  • Such additional purposes as the CSCC Executive Committee may, from time to time, recommend consistent with the foregoing purposes.
Working Group Participation

The CSCC asks that all Members participate in operating committees (Working Groups). Working Groups will be formed and disbanded according to a dynamic program. Information on the current working groups can be found on our site.