Kolasky sees more opportunities for ‘operational collaboration’ with private sector entities in CISA’s future

The outgoing leader of CISA’s National Risk Management Center says ongoing efforts to strengthen relationships with industry around critical infrastructure security are an important component to CISA’s mission and one that he hopes will continue developing as risks evolve over time.

The structure of the work with industry through DHS and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been “pretty consistent,” Bob Kolasky said, since he joined DHS in 2008. Because of that standardization, Kolasky said industry has been willing...