Easterly: CISA’s move to ‘operational collaboration’ relies on joint effort with critical infrastructure partners

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has worked over the past year to shift its mission to “operational collaboration” through the creation of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, release of multi-agency cybersecurity advisories, and its “Shields Up” work, according to Director Jen Easterly, who provided an overview of efforts to work more closely with industry at the RSA conference.

“Our mission is to lead the national effort to understand, manage and reduce risk to the ‘critical infrastructure’ that Americans rely...