Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

To do this, we use our unique mix of authorities, capabilities, and partnerships to impose consequences against our cyber adversaries. The cybersecurity vulnerability and incident response procedures currently used to identify, remediate, and recover from vulnerabilities and incidents affecting their systems vary across agencies, hindering the ability of lead agencies to analyze vulnerabilities and incidents Agency Cybersecurity more comprehensively across agencies. Standardized response processes ensure a more coordinated and centralized cataloging of incidents and tracking of agencies’ progress toward successful responses. The criteria shall reflect a baseline level of secure practices, and if practicable, shall reflect increasingly comprehensive levels of testing and assessment that a product may have undergone.

The attempted cyber-attack on a water treatment facility in Florida in early 2021 as well as the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack were powerful reminders of the substantial risks that need to be addressed. In March 2021, Secretary Mayorkas outlined his broader vision and a roadmap for the Department’s cybersecurity efforts in a virtual address hosted by RSA Conference, in partnership with Hampton University and the Girl Scouts of the USA. On July 12, 2021, the Senate confirmed Jen Easterly by a Voice Vote, directly after the Senate returned from its July 4th recess. Easterly’s nomination had been reported favorably out of Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on June 16, but a floor vote had been reportedly held by Senator Rick Scott over broader national security concerns, until the President or Vice President had visited the southern border with Mexico. Government agencies, allies, industry, academia, and researchers to strengthen cybersecurity awareness to advance the state of cybersecurity.

The voluntary NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides standards, guidelines and best practices to manage cybersecurity risk. It focuses on using business drivers to guide cybersecurity activities and considering cybersecurity risks as part of the organization’s risk management processes. FTA provides financial support for some grant recipients’ cybersecurity activities and supports the U.S.

Log4j is broadly used in a variety of consumer and enterprise services, websites, and applications—as well as medical devices and supporting systems—to log security and performance information. These vulnerabilities may introduce risks for certain medical devices where the device could be made unavailable, or an unauthorized user could remotely impact the safety and effectiveness of device functionality. At this time, the FDA is not aware of any confirmed adverse events affecting medical devices related to these vulnerabilities. Threats to the nation's critical infrastructures and the information technology systems that support them require a concerted effort among federal agencies; state, local, tribal, and territorial governments; and the private sector to ensure their security. The seriousness of the threat was reinforced by the December 2020 discovery of a cyberattack that has had widespread impact on government agencies, critical infrastructures, and private-sector companies. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released the Cyber Safety Review Board’s first report, which includes 19 actionable recommendations for government and industry.

By bringing together our insight and capabilities, we can build a collective defense against the threats we face. The state agency strategic cybersecurity plan must cover a 3-year period and, at a minimum, define security goals, intermediate objectives, and projected agency costs for the strategic issues of agency information security policy, risk management, security training, security incident response, and disaster recovery. The plan must be based on the statewide cybersecurity strategic plan created by the department and include performance metrics that can be objectively measured to reflect the status of the state agency’s progress in meeting security goals and objectives identified in the agency’s strategic information security plan. To address cyber risks or incidents, including potential cyber risks or incidents, the proposed recommendations issued pursuant to subsection of this section shall include requirements to ensure that, upon request, agencies provide logs to the Secretary of Homeland Security through the Director of CISA and to the FBI, consistent with applicable law. These requirements should be designed to permit agencies to share log information, as needed and appropriate, with other Federal agencies for cyber risks or incidents.

Included in these 42 are the tasks of finalizing the mission-essential functions of CISA's divisions and issuing a memorandum defining incident management roles and responsibilities across CISA. Tasks such as these appear to be critical to CISA's transformation initiative and accordingly its ability to effectively and efficiently carry out its cyber protection mission. In addition, the agency had not established an updated overall deadline for completing its transformation initiative. Until it establishes updated milestones and an overall deadline for its efforts, and expeditiously carries out these plans, CISA will be hindered in meeting the goals of its organizational transformation initiative.