DHS Works to Protect National Critical Infrastructure
Last month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), published two important resources that deserve special attention. While many of these CISA status reports may seem a bit like “alphabet soup” to those not familiar with the process, the importance of this National Critical Function (NCF) topic is paramount to our joint efforts to protect our nation’s critical infrastructure from numerous threats.
The “NCF: Status Update to the Critical Infrastructure Community” was released directly to stakeholders in July 2020, and the NCF Fact Sheet is new.
The release of this NCF report on progress in protecting our National Critical Functions is ground-breaking. In order to better understand the importance of this topic and dive deeper into what it means, I interviewed Thad Odderstol, deputy associate director of the National Risk Management Center.
Mr. Odderstol has an impressive career track record with extensive public- and private-sector experience. He was the information security risk management lead at Freddie Mac; a security specialist with Deloitte; the director of strategy, engagement and program management at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and the director of industry engagement and resilience for DHS, as well as directing critical infrastructure protection cyber security for DHS.
I have known Thad for well more than a decade, and we worked together in DHS’s early efforts on critical infrastructure protection, while I was Michigan CISO and during the Bush and Obama administrations when he was with DHS. He is very smart and well-respected in the industry, and I can think of no one better to update us on these recent developments and important reports.
Dan Lohrmann (DL): How did this consolidated report develop? How often will it be updated?
Thad Odderstol (TO): (Read more...)
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