CISA responds to advisory panel recommendations on ‘systemically important entities,’ elections

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is in the process of setting up an office for its “systemically important entities” work, according to Director Jen Easterly, who provided an update on plans in a formal response to proposals from the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee.

The CSAC approved several recommendations at its September meeting addressing systemic risk including a process to identify SIEs, developing a common framework to analyze “systemic risk” within the National Critical Functions, and establishing “outcome-based national...