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Control Systems Goals and Objectives | CISA
Once again NIST and CISA, working in partnership, meet their defined deliverables to meet presidential directives to improve cybersecurity across all critical infrastructure sectors. It's easy to see the alignment and harmony that exists between NIST and CISA in this document. This alignment and harmony were also on full display today during the testimony of CISA Director Jen Easterly at the Senate hearing on National Cybersecurity Strategy: Protection of Federal and Critical Infrastructure Systems. Here are some of my key takeaways from the linked document:
CISA and NIST identified nine categories of recommended cybersecurity practices and used these categories as the foundation for preliminary control system cybersecurity performance goals. Each of the nine goals includes specific objectives that support the deployment and operation of secure control systems that are further organized into baseline and enhanced objectives.
Baseline objectives represent recommended practices for all control system operators while the enhanced objectives include practices for critical infrastructure supporting national defense; critical lifeline sectors (i.e. energy, communications, transportation, and water); or where failure of control systems could have impacts to safety. DHS will coordinate with its interagency and private sector partners to determine the applicability of the enhanced objectives within each sector. In addition to the objectives, Example Evidence of Implementation is provided for each objective to demonstrate what successful implementation of an objective might entail for an organization.
DHS expects to conduct much more extensive stakeholder engagement as the goals are finalized in the coming months.
Control Systems Goals and Objectives | CISA
On Wednesday, July 28, 2021, the President signed a National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems. The National Security Memorandum establishes a voluntary initiative intended to drive collaboration between the Federal Government and the critical infrastructure community to improve cybersecurity of control systems. It instructs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to lead the development of preliminary cross-sector control system cybersecurity performance goals as well as sector-specific performance goals within one year of the date of the National Security Memorandum. These goals are intended to provide a common understanding of the baseline security practices that critical infrastructure owners and operators should follow to protect national and economic security, as well as public health and safety.
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