Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: Actions Needed to Ensure Organizational Changes Result in More Effective Cybersecurity for Our Nation

The Cybersecurity Operations Center shall serve as a clearinghouse for threat information and coordinate with the Department of Law Enforcement to support state agencies and their response to any confirmed or suspected cybersecurity incident. It focuses on transit, passenger rail, trucking, over-the-road buses, school buses, freight Agency Cybersecurity rail and pipeline modes of transportation. 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.

The President has made strengthening the Nation’s cybersecurity a priority from the outset of this Administration. CyWatch is the FBI’s 24/7 operations center and watch floor, providing around-the-clock support to track incidents and communicate with field offices across the country. The CRR is a no-cost, voluntary, non-technical assessment to evaluate an organization’s operational resilience and cyber security practices. Department of Homeland Security The Director of CISA should establish an approach, including time frames, for measuring outcomes of the organizational transformation, including customer satisfaction with organizational changes. Department of Homeland Security The Director of CISA should collect input to ensure that organizational changes are aligned with the needs of stakeholders, taking into account coordination challenges identified in this report.

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GAO also assessed CISA's efforts against selected key practices identified by GAO that can contribute to the effectiveness of agency reform efforts. In addition, GAO interviewed selected stakeholders related to CISA's primary mission areas to identify any pertinent challenges and analyzed strategies CISA developed to address these challenges. The American people’s confidence in the value of their vote is principally reliant on the security and resilience of the infrastructure that makes the Nation’s elections possible.

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The agency partially addressed practices related to, for example, defining goals and outcomes and conducting workforce planning. Workforce planning is especially important for CISA, given the criticality of hiring and retaining experts who, among other things, can help identify and respond to complex attacks. CISA did conduct an initial assessment of its cybersecurity workforce in 2019; however, it is still working on analyzing capability gaps and determining how to best fill those gaps. Finally, CISA did not address the practice of ensuring that its employee performance management system was aligned with its new organizational structure and transformation goals. Until it fully addresses workforce planning and the five other practices that are either partially or not addressed, CISA’s ability to leverage its organizational changes to effectively carry out its mission will be hindered.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center collects reports of Internet crime from the public. Using such complaints, the IC3’s Recovery Asset Team has assisted in freezing hundreds of thousands of dollars for victims of cyber crime. With cyber assistant legal attachés in embassies across the globe, the FBI works closely with our international counterparts to seek justice for victims of malicious cyber activity. The rapid-response Cyber Action Team can deploy across the country within hours to respond to major incidents. CISA is publishing this notice to announce the following CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee virtual meeting.