What is the SISE (Sensitive Information Sharing Environment)?
The Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE) is a private sector operated legal framework for simplifying operational coordination, communication, and information sharing between states and the private sector during a crisis.
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Why It Matters: Real-World Operational Benefits
- Private: The SISE is only accessible to a vetted, trusted SISE community which ensures a more secure and confidential information sharing environment.
- A Single Place of Access: The SISE's technical platform provides a single place for the SISE's cross-sector users to access the most commonly requested information during large scale disasters or crises including government declarations, waivers, sitreps, and industry disruptions, facility status, and information requests of states.
- Speed: The SISE community, made up of hundreds of trusted people, gathers and shares important information from different sectors that isn't meant for the public. Together they share this information into the SISE's technical platforms. They use a proven trusted crowdsourcing process to find and share this information faster than most groups could do by themselves.
- Broader Data Collection: The SISE aggregates diverse data types, including emails, texts, files, chats, posts, call notes, or other attachments... into a single place and a GIS format to broaden your enhance situational awareness across multiple sectors.
- Cross-Sector Collaboration & Planning: The SISE community conducts facilitated planning and collaboration sessions between cross-sector stakeholders year-round to improve trust, promote problem-solving, and strengthen coordination during crises.
- Data Confidence & Reliability: The SISE provides access to dependable information from reliable data sources ranked by the ORL (Operational Readiness Level) standard, ensuring user confidence in critical data used for decision-making.
- Reduces Email Traffic: Reduces email communication overload and confusion by streamlining and organizing critical information in real-time to a single place (e.g. the SISE-net Hub) 24x7x365.
- FOIA Protection: Safeguards sensitive information from non-operational users by ensuring privacy under FOIA (Freedom-of-Information-Act) exempt frameworks.
- Proven Results: Since 2015, the SISE has consistently outperformed other cross-sector platforms by rapidly synchronizing information during crises. Whether it's wildfires, hurricanes, industrial accidents, strikes, resource shortages, or COVID-19, the SISE has repeatedly proven to be an indispensable, unique operational resource for both industry and government, delivering faster and more effective results when it matters most.
Operation Information Sharing Examples

The SISE provide industry with a safe, FOIA protected information sharing framework for both industry and government.
At the annual SISE-net Cross-Sector Operational Information Sharing Virtual Exercise held in July-Aug 2022 for hurricane season preparation, the states and industry representatives all agreed to focus on the following six (6) areas of information.
Why?
Because these areas are part of every major hurricane (or any disaster) that has them all sending thousands of duplicate emails to their contact to find the same information. Instead, by working together is a trusted crowdsourcing framework, they can reduce emails, save time, and get more timely and accurate information to support situational awareness and decision support.
Today this is all being accomplished using a simple website, an app for vetted users to contribute update top the website, and a private encrypted chat apps for states and sector representatives to collaborate among themselves.
This is called the SISE-net Operational Information Sharing Hub (aka The SISE-net Hub).
In 2024, a report was released explaining who it all worked during Hurricane DEBBY.
Download the report at: https://www.ahcusa.org/reports1.html
At the annual SISE-net Cross-Sector Operational Information Sharing Virtual Exercise held in July-Aug 2022 for hurricane season preparation, the states and industry representatives all agreed to focus on the following six (6) areas of information.
Why?
Because these areas are part of every major hurricane (or any disaster) that has them all sending thousands of duplicate emails to their contact to find the same information. Instead, by working together is a trusted crowdsourcing framework, they can reduce emails, save time, and get more timely and accurate information to support situational awareness and decision support.
Today this is all being accomplished using a simple website, an app for vetted users to contribute update top the website, and a private encrypted chat apps for states and sector representatives to collaborate among themselves.
This is called the SISE-net Operational Information Sharing Hub (aka The SISE-net Hub).
In 2024, a report was released explaining who it all worked during Hurricane DEBBY.
Download the report at: https://www.ahcusa.org/reports1.html
Operational Problem Solving via Use Case Development Process

The Use Case Development Process adopted by the working groups of the All Hazards Consortium showcases the power of collaboration in tackling sector specific and cross-s sector operational problems.
By following a structured approach and tapping into the collective expertise of government and industry stakeholders, the groups have devised innovative solutions that bolster resilience and enhance response capabilities.
The tangible results produced through this process highlight its effectiveness in creating a safer and more prepared community.
As challenges continue to evolve, this collaborative approach will remain essential for ensuring that solutions are timely, effective, and sustainable.
How the SISE Operates: A Behind-the-Scenes Look
The Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE) is a trusted, private sector guided legal framework where different groups of people from all sectors and government work together year round to get ready for, respond to, and recover from any type of crisis or disasters. The SISE is comprised of several components:
- People: The supports a nationwide community of experienced and vetted individuals who are dedicated to planning, responding, and recovering from crises within the SISE legal framework.
- Legal Protections: The SISE community of users operates under the SISE legal framework/agreements, providing legal/liability protections and FOIA exemption to protect sensitive information shared within the group and not with external, non-vetted, non-operational entities as outlined in the SISE agreements. This ensures that participants can freely share anonymized information without the risk of public disclosure or liability/legal issues.
- Safe Community: The SISE community of action-oriented, results focused users are the bedrock of the SISE. They organize themselves into working groups, meetings, workshops and events to jointly develop new use cases or solutions, discuss and solve operational problems, or provide training. They also coordinate and share information together during large scale disasters, hurricanes, wildfires, and a variety of other crises.
- Problem Solving Processes: The SISE working group focus on solving operational problems through a structured facilitated use case development process which results in better defined and understood problem(s), a unity of effort towards some solution(s), and increased trust among the stakeholders through a shared understanding of the impacts, the people to engage, and the short-, mid-, and long-term solutions they can collectively work on.
- Information Sources: The information in the SISE is a combination of unstructured (share by users via apps) and structured information (data feeds, always on). During disasters, experience has shown that up to 80% of information shared is unstructured due to the dynamic conditions cause by the incident.
- Unstructured information includes: emails, texts, pics, files, chats, trusted social posts, call notes, or other attachments.
- Structured information includes: any information already organized into services to data feed (GIS, XML, etc...).
- Technology / Tools: The SISE's technology leverages several components that provide the user vetting and access to a central information hub. Additionally, the SISE leverages an encrypted third party app that allows certified user to contribute data and/or information directly into the SISE's Operational Information Sharing Hub.
SISE Use Case Examples
The COVID-19 National PPE Vetted Supplier Directory (2020)
Use Case: On/Off Data Sharing of Operational Information During Disasters
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Use Case: Reducing Fiber/Cable Cuts Following Hurricanes
Use Case: Joint Industry/Government Damage Assessments
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SISE 101 Resources:
The SISE "Honeycomb" Data Architecture and User Identity Vetting
SISE Use Case Development Process
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SISE Use Case Methodology
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