Readout from CISA’s 2024 Second Quarter Cybersecurity Advisory Committee Meeting

WEST POINT, N.Y. - Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) held its second quarter 2024 Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CSAC) meeting. During the meeting, members provided updates and voted on recommendations based on CISA Director Jen Easterly’s tasking on Optimizing CISA’s Cyber Operational Collaboration Platform. The recommendations support and enhance CISA’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) continued maturation and investment, focusing on optimal operational cyber defense collaboration. CISA’s cyber defense mission is dependent upon effective collaboration between government and the private sector, which is enabled in significant part through JCDC.

“I am excited about the recommendations discussed today and look forward to reviewing them,” said CISA Director Jen Easterly. “I know they are thoughtful and innovative ideas that align with CISA’s priorities and mission as the previous recommendations have been.”

In addition to the recommendations put forth by the Optimizing CISA’s Cyber Operational Collaboration Platform subcommittee, the other subcommittee updates included:

(1) the Strategic Communications subcommittee has resumed work to help CISA advance communications efforts to the American people;  

(2) the Building Resilience for Critical Infrastructure subcommittee explored opportunities to promote cybersecurity and resilience efforts across critical infrastructure partners and in relation to the People’s Republic of China’s goals and targets;  

(3) the Technical Advisory Council subcommittee is researching how CISA can encourage migration toward open-source software security; and

(4) the Secure by Design subcommittee explored opportunities to ensure secure by design best practices are affordable and accessible for all users.

In March, Director Easterly formally responded to the 108 recommendations the Committee approved during the September 2023 quarterly meeting. CISA accepted or partially accepted nearly all the recommendations. The recommendations and responses can be found here. In May, Director Easterly formally responded to the 29 recommendations the Committee approved during the December 2023 quarterly meeting, and CISA accepted nearly all the recommendations. The recommendations and responses can be found here.  

Established in 2021, the Committee was created to provide recommendations to the CISA Director to advance the cybersecurity mission of the agency as well as to strengthen cybersecurity measures across the nation.      

The next CSAC meeting will be held, virtually, in September.

The agenda from today’s meeting is available here. More information on CSAC is available here.   

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