Private and Public Collaboration Initiative in the US

Article: CISA Launches JCDC, the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative
Author: Kelly Jackson Higgins
Published: August 5, 2021, 8:55 PM
Site: DARKReading.com

What is the best defense against all the cyber attacks our country has experience in the last few years? What is the best response? What is the best approach and strategy?

Jen Easterly may have an answer – COLLABORATION! Easterly is the newly appointed Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director and has launched an initiative to band the public and private sectors of the security industry to work together and “proactively address and defend” against the cyberattacks in the US. The initiative is called Joint Cyber Defense Collective (JCDC) goals are to increase awareness on the threat landscape that we face today and map that landscape to actual operational “blueprints”.

The first items on the agenda are ransomware and cloud security. Goals are to plan a “framework to respond to cyber incidents affecting CSPs”.

The collaborating pool of entities is impressive!

1. Government: CISA, Dept of Defense, US Cyber Command, NSA, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
2. Future: Dept of Energy, Transportation, EPA, & FDA will be soon to follow.
3. Private: AWS, AT&T, CrowdStrike, FireEye Mandiant, Google Cloud, Lumen, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and Verizon.

This is an exciting turn of events and about time. The US needs to leverage the knowledge and strengths from ALL sectors to combat the ever growing mal-actors that are waiting in the sidelines to disrupt our world. I look forward to following this initiative closely and even looking into how to get involved! Cyber security is our future and the sooner we become part of the solution the better.

Vanessa

Reference:

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/cisa-launches-jcdc-the-joint-cyber-defense-collaborative/d/d-id/1341592