House Homeland hearing explores next steps for CISA ‘performance goals,’ with focus on Operational Technology

The development of CISA’s cyber “performance goals” involved close collaboration with industry, alignment with the NIST cybersecurity framework, and exploring security concerns that apply to industrial control systems, according to CISA cyber leader Eric Goldstein, who provided an overview to lawmakers at a Thursday hearing.

“The Common Baseline is voluntary by design, and the draft goals were developed through a highly collaborative process. CISA received over 2,000 comments across two separate rounds of review, which included multiple workshops with critical...