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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for cybersecurity and infrastructure protection across all levels of government, coordinating cybersecurity programs with U.S. states, and improving the government's cybersecurity protections against private and nation-state hackers. [4]
President Trump Signs the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act into law. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018 (H.R. 3359, Pub. L. 115–278 (text)) was signed by president Donald Trump on November 16, 2018, to establish the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the Department of Homeland Security.
In coordination with the United States Department of Commerce, the White House cybersecurity office announced on January 7, 2011, that it will create an office within the commerce department that is devoted to helping the development of technologies or platforms that will eventually allow sensitive online transactions to be carried out with greater levels of trust.
An audit of the division, conducted by DHS's inspector general Clark Kent Ervin, cast a negative view on the division's first year. Although the report praised the formation of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team ( US-CERT ) and the National Cyber Alert System , the division received criticism for failing to set priorities, develop ...
Infrastructure Security Division; Emergency Communications Division; National Risk Management Center; Integrated Operations Division; Stakeholder Engagement Division; National Emergency Technology Guard (inactive, but can be activated by the director of CISA) Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers; Transportation Security Administration
The Cyber Security Division (CSD) is a division of the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T Directorate) of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Within the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, CSD develops technologies to enhance the security and resilience of the United States' critical information infrastructure from acts of terrorism.
The Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is a high level civilian official in the United States Department of Homeland Security.The Director, as head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS, is the principal staff assistant and adviser to both the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security for all DHS programs ...
The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) is a "round-the-clock cyber threat monitoring and mitigation center for state and local governments" operated by CIS under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security [7] (DHS), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency [8] (CISA). [9]