Security News > 2023 > July > White House publishes National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan
It is taking the novel step of publishing the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan to ensure transparency and a continued path for coordination.
The Office of the National Cyber Director will coordinate activities under the plan, including an annual report to the President and Congress on the status of implementation, and partner with the Office of Management and Budget to ensure funding proposals in the President's Budget Request are aligned with NCSIP initiatives.
Update the National Cyber Incident Response Plan: During a cyber incident, it is critical that the government acts in a coordinated manner and that private sector and SLTT partners know how to get help.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will lead a process to update the National Cyber Incident Response Plan to more fully realize the policy that "a call to one is a call to all." The update will also include clear guidance to external partners on the roles and capabilities of Federal agencies in incident response and recovery.
A complementary initiative, led by CISA, will include offering resources such as training, cybersecurity services, technical assessments, pre-attack planning, and incident response to high-risk targets of ransomware, like hospitals and schools, to make them less likely to be affected and to reduce the scale and duration of impacts if they are attacked.
Consistent with the National Standards Strategy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology will convene the Interagency International Cybersecurity Standardization Working Group to coordinate major issues in international cybersecurity standardization and enhance U.S. federal agency participation in the process.