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:
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: