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USA fortifies Cyber-Physical Resilience of CI

The report provides recommendations to support CI sectors and public-private partnership, broadening resilience initiatives.

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date:  28/03/2024

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USA report recommends a series of actions to fortify the resilience of national critical infrastructure as follows: 

  1. Establish performance goals. It recommends to develop both Cybersecurity Performance Goals and Physical Security Performance Goals, to work with Sector Risk Management Agencies (SRMAs) and their Sector Coordinating Councils (SCCs) to create an integrated set of Critical Infrastructure Performance Goals that define minimum viable delivery objectives for services that are integral to daily lives.
  2. Bolster and Coordinate Research and Development. It recommends, in partnership with SRMAs and SCCs, to task the National Risk Management Center to develop a National Critical Infrastructure Observatory to better understand the weaknesses and strengths of infrastructure, helping to outmatch adversarial attacks and prepare for accidents and catastrophes. It further recommends to formulate a more coordinated national research and development (R&D) agenda on cyber-physical resilience.
  3. Break Down Silos and Strengthen Government Cyber-Physical Resilience Capacity. It recommends to esource SRMAs with greater capabilities to support the cyber-physical resilience goals of critical infrastructure sectors, ensuring that they can reliably deliver the services.
  4. Develop Greater Industry, Board, CEO, and Executive Accountability and Flexibility. It recommends to work with SRMAs and SCCs to increase the expectations that boards, CEOs, and other executives, as the owners and operators of critical infrastructure, contribute more time and resources to ensure that infrastructure is reliable and resilient. In addition, CISA should work with local utility commissions and overseers (especially for water and electricity) to ensure that necessary investments for cyber-physical resilience are made. 

Executing these recommendations will amplify and extend the efforts already underway to achieve resilience in the critical services that are integral to daily lives.

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