CISA updates emergency communications plan to include a 'cybersecurity goal'

The DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has updated its National Emergency Communications Plan, which is intended to ensure continuity of the country's warning system at a time of crisis, to reflect advances in technology, address vulnerabilities and weaknesses of older “legacy” components, and include a “cybersecurity goal.”

“The update to the NECP is the blueprint for designing and improving the nation’s emergency communications capabilities at all levels of government,” CISA Director Christopher Krebs said in a statement announcing...