Who is the CISA?
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the Nation’s risk advisor, working with partners to defend against today’s threats and collaborating with industry to build more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future. CISA is at the heart of mobilizing a collective defense to understand and manage risk to our critical infrastructure. Their partners in this mission span the public and private sectors. The programs and services CISA provides are driven by the comprehensive understanding of the risk environment and the corresponding needs identified by our stakeholders. CISA seeks to help organizations better manage risk and increase resilience using all available resources, whether provided by the Federal Government, commercial vendors, or their own capabilities.
What Does CISA Do?
CISA builds the national capacity to defend against cyber attacks and works with the federal government to provide cybersecurity tools, incident response services and assessment capabilities to safeguard the ‘.gov’ networks that support the essential operations of partner departments and agencies.
From helping to secure the COVID-19 supply chain to supporting free and fair elections – See what CISA accomplished in 2020.
CISA coordinates security and resilience efforts using trusted partnerships across the private and public sectors, and deliver technical assistance and assessments to federal stakeholders as well as to infrastructure owners and operators nationwide. CISA also delivers insights on these assessments related to current capabilities to identify gaps, which—along with an examination of emerging technologies—help determine the demand for future capabilities (both near- and long-term).
CISA enhances public safety interoperable communications at all levels of government to help partners across the country develop their emergency communications capabilities.
Working with stakeholders across the country, CISA conducts extensive, nationwide outreach to support and promote the ability of emergency response providers and relevant government officials to continue to communicate in the event of a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster.
The National Risk Management Center (NRMC) is housed within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). NRMC is a planning, analysis, and collaboration center working to identify and address the most significant risks to our nation’s critical infrastructure.
NRMC works in close coordination with the private sector and other key stakeholders in the critical infrastructure community to: Identify; Analyze; Prioritize; and Manage the most strategic risks to our National Critical Functions—the functions of government and the private sector so vital to the United States that their disruption, corruption, or dysfunction would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination.
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued alerts for increased Ransomware activity of the business and public sector. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CISA has seen increased attempts to utilize ransomware. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has also seen an uptick in phishing attempts.
Management should be diligent to ensure that their business are safeguarded from cyber threats. During this time of heightened security concerns, they should follow the CISA guidelines
Additional Information
For additional information about on-going threats go to the CISA website. Also, if you suspect potential cyber incidents report them to the FBI 24/7 CyberWatch Command Center at 855-292-3937
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