Federal agencies get new cybersecurity response playbooks
Federal agencies have new guidance for how to respond to cybersecurity incidents and vulnerabilities. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released playbooks Tuesday that include standardized response procedures for federal civilian executive branch agencies facing such threats.
President Joe Biden tasked CISA with developing the guidance in his May Executive Order on cybersecurity. The playbooks cover how agencies should manage cybersecurity processes related to incidents and vulnerabilities—including preparation, investigation, containment, reporting, and remediation.
While the procedures were developed for use by the federal government, CISA also encourages organizations involved in other levels of government, controlling critical infrastructure, and in the private sector “review them to benchmark their own vulnerability and incident response practices.”
Andrea Peterson
(they/them) is a longtime cybersecurity journalist who cut their teeth covering technology policy at ThinkProgress (RIP) and The Washington Post before doing deep-dive public records investigations at the Project on Government Oversight and American Oversight.