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ASIS International, along with 22 financial services trade associations, and financial institution utilities and exchanges, have formed the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council, LLC (FSSCC).

The FSSCC is resolved to ensure the safety, certainty and continuity of our capital markets in the face of terrorist threats, war, and possible disruptions in the future.

The Council focuses its activities on four primary areas:

• Effective and rapid information dissemination of threat and incident information to and from the government through the industry's Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS/ISAC)
• Crisis management and response coordination to enable communication across the sector in the event of a regional or national disaster
• Outreach and organizational engagement to ensure all institutions within the sector understand the industry's critical infrastructure and homeland security objectives and responsibilities.
• Knowledge sharing and best practices to leverage existing work, which can be shared across the sector to improve security and business continuity practices that protect the financial services infrastructure.

The council will work closely with the Treasury, the financial services lead agency for financial services critical infrastructure protection, through its Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee (FBIIC).

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