Summary:
Today, as part of National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released new guidance to help detect and mitigate efforts by foreign intelligence entities to harm or disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure. CISA is the National Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience.

Analyst Comments:
Critical infrastructure is the backbone of the U.S. economy; it is essential to public health and safety, national security, and resilience. Some critical infrastructure sectors—communications, energy, financial services, transportation systems, and water and wastewater systems—are interconnected to an extent that harm or compromise to one sector could harm or compromise other sectors.

Suggested Corrections:
As a nation, we are seeing continued cyber and physical threats to critical infrastructure Americans rely on every day. U.S. adversaries and their foreign intelligence entities understand the importance of these sectors and how degrading them could hinder our national response in the event of crisis or war.

Read the new guidance at: https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/products/Final_Safeguarding_Our_Critical_Infrastructure.pdf

Link(s):
https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/products/Final_Safeguarding_Our_Critical_Infrastructure.pdf