Agency: Advanced Personal Cybersecurity for Enterprises

The FBI leads this task force of more than 30 co-located agencies from the Intelligence Community and law enforcement. The NCIJTF is organized around mission centers based on key cyber threat areas and led by senior executives from partner agencies. Through these mission centers, operations and intelligence are integrated for maximum impact against U.S. adversaries. Malicious cyber activity threatens the public’s safety and our national and economic security. Our goal is to change the behavior of criminals and nation-states who believe they can compromise U.S. networks, steal financial and intellectual property, and put critical infrastructure at risk without facing risk themselves.

In May 2017, the President signed Executive Order 13800, Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, which concentrates on IT modernization and cybersecurity risk management. Executive Order reinforces the Federal Information Security Modernization Act by holding agency heads accountable for managing cybersecurity risks to their enterprises. It requires each agency to assess its cybersecurity risks and submit a plan to OMB detailing actions to implement the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

Department of Homeland Security The Director of CISA should assess the agency's methods of communicating with its critical infrastructure stakeholders to ensure that appropriate parties are included in distribution lists or other communication channels. Department of Homeland Security The Director of CISA should take steps, with stakeholder input, to determine how critical infrastructure stakeholders should be involved with the development of guidance for their sector. Department of Homeland Security The Director of CISA should communicate relevant organizational changes to selected critical infrastructure stakeholders to ensure that these stakeholders know with whom they should be coordinating in CISA's organization. The Surface Transportation Cybersecurity Resource Toolkit is a collection of documents designed to provide cyber risk management information to surface transportation operators with fewer than 1,000 employees.

President Biden has made cybersecurity, a critical element of the Department of Homeland Security’s mission, a top priority for the Biden-Harris Administration at all levels of government. Each year, NSA recognizes the outstanding work of federal government organizations and individuals who significantly improved cybersecurity advancement in classified or unclassified security-related areas. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency defends critical infrastructure against threats.

But perhaps even more importantly, the board was not the first instance of these “Ministry of Truth” efforts. Lately, however, it has instead been in the business of censoring information on private social media platforms, at universities, and more. This is strikingly similar to other disinformation efforts at the DHS, the White House, and other parts of the Biden administration that have come to light recently. The department shall adopt rules relating to cybersecurity and to administer this section. Establishing procedures for procuring information technology commodities and services that require the commodity or service to meet the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework. Shared Technology Services Managed IT services that Texas government organizations can use to accelerate service delivery.

In collaboration with the Cybercrime Office of the Department of Law Enforcement, annually provide training for state agency information security managers and computer security incident response team members that contains training on cybersecurity, including cybersecurity threats, trends, and best practices. A 2018 federal law established Agency Cybersecurity the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to help protect critical infrastructure from cyber and other threats—but it isn't fully up and running yet. Our ability to execute our critical mission relies on the strength of our partnerships with you and our other key partners across the public and private sectors.

Accordingly, an electoral process that is both secure and resilient is a vital national interest and one of the Department of Homeland Security’s highest priorities. The Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is committed to working collaboratively with those on the front lines of elections—state and local governments, election officials, federal partners, and vendors—to manage risks to the Nation’s election infrastructure. CISA will remain transparent and agile in its vigorous efforts to secure America’s election infrastructure from new and evolving threats.