CISA moves into Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative planning phase following initial incident response efforts

CISA’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative is starting work on “defense planning,” according to agency stakeholder outreach lead Alaina Clark, a foundational component of the public-private initiative that she says was initially put on hold to respond to “immediate threats.”

The JCDC launched in August 2021 with the initial goal of developing cyber incident response plans, but Clark said “as we started to see the actions and positioning that Russia was taking [with Ukraine], that took a little bit of...