LLIS Good Story: Portland, Oregon's Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security (RAINS)-Net: Connect and Protectâ„¢   [open pdf - 169KB]

From Summary: "The Portland, Oregon 9-1-1 Center launched the Connect and Protect™ network, based on Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security (RAINS) technology, in August 2003 to foster information sharing between the public and private sectors. Connect and Protect enables Portland 9-1-1 to rapidly gather and distribute sensitive information and incident alerts among public safety agencies, hospitals, schools, critical infrastructure owners and operators, and other homeland security stakeholders."