The Real Estate Roundtable's Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) is focused on enhancing the commercial facilities sector's ability to meet its current and future security-related challenges by analyzing threats, sharing information, and fostering resilience through a broad threat matrix of physical and cyber risks.

The Real Estate Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RE-ISAC) is a public-private partnership between the U.S. commercial facilities sector and federal homeland security officials. It is the primary conduit of terrorism, cyber, and natural hazard warning and response information between the government and the commercial facilities sector. 

Through this network, the RE-ISAC engages in operational efforts to coordinate activities supporting the detection, prevention, and mitigation of a full range of physical, data, and cyber threats to the nation’s critical infrastructure.

Growing geopolitical conflicts have raised security concerns around cyberattacks and exposed existing vulnerabilities in the nation’s cybersecurity regime, heightening the necessity to build robust domestic cyber defense systems for commercial facilities.

Congress and federal agencies have also mandated or proposed new cyber incident reporting requirements for critical infrastructure and public corporations.

Commercial real estate faces numerous threats from natural catastrophes, international and domestic terrorism, and organized retail crime. These threats cost businesses, cities, and the economy billions in losses. The Roundtable continues to build a more secure and resilient industry through our Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) and active role in the Real Estate Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RE-ISAC). 

Our work remains focused on tangible measures—developed through increased cross-agency information sharing and cooperation with law enforcement and intelligence agencies—that the commercial real estate industry can take to guard against these threats. As the nature of threats evolves, The Roundtable will remain a central advocate and conduit of information to ensure the places where our friends, family, and neighbors live, work, shop, and play are safe and secure.