Published on: November 1, 2024
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a new strategic plan that involves active coordination with international partners to improve cybersecurity standards across the globe.
CISA’s goal is to rapidly improve global cybersecurity standards so that its partners are strong enough to stand up to modern malware threats while bolstering their integrated cyber defenses.
They’re also seeking to unify agency coordination in response to cyber threats, which would make it easier for international groups to immediately help each other during attacks.
They plan to investigate its partner’s key infrastructure, analyzing where it needs improvement, what its weaknesses are, and where it fails outright. From there, CISA and the partner government’s internal agencies will work together to address these flaws.
“In following this plan, CISA will improve coordination with our partners and strengthen international relationships to reduce risk to the globally interconnected and interdependent cyber and physical infrastructure that Americans rely on every day,” explains CISA Director Jen Easterly.
The plan is part of the Biden administration’s overall aim to combat the growing frequency of cyber attacks. In the past, CISA has supplied aid to other countries to combat aggressive threats, including helping Australia and Ukraine.
The push for international coordination came after CISA helped Ukraine improve its cybersecurity defenses after its war against Russia began. Since 2022, CISA worked alongside 17 different international agencies to build up their country’s cybersecurity defenses and critical infrastructure.
“International partnerships and collaboration are essential for combating global cybercrime,” writes Annie Fixler, director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“Criminal operations and the network infrastructure they use is global, and so our efforts to thwart and punish cybercriminals must also be a global endeavor, requiring deep and constant collaboration with partners and allies.”
Should the plan work, it will greatly boost the global supply chain security.