DHS is pushing two cybersecurity initiatives designed to enhance coordination and information sharing with state, local, tribal and territorial governments and private sector partners and that build on a series of recent cybersecurity measures.
DHS said officials and others recently launched a new cybersecurity operations center as part of the preexisting "multi-state information sharing and analysis center" in East Greenwich, N.Y.
The new operations center builds on a long-standing information sharing partnership between MS-ISAC and DHS and will both enhance situational awareness at the state and local level for the national cybersecurity and communications integration center, a DHS-led integrated cyber incident response hub.
The department also announced an agreement with the "IT information sharing and analysis center" to embed a full-time analyst and liaison to DHS at the NCCIC.
The IT-ISAC consists of IT stakeholders from the private sector and facilitates cooperation among members to identify sector-specific vulnerabilities and risk mitigation strategies, according to DHS.
Under a cooperative agreement with DHS, the MS-ISAC will also have a permanent representative at the NCCIC, the department said.
DHS also recently signed an agreement with DoD that deploys a DoD support team to the NCCIC to enhance the National Cyber Incident Response Plan and sends a full-time senior DHS leader and support team to DoD’s National Security Agency.
