DHS plays a critical role in ensuring Artificial Intelligence (AI) security nationwide. The Federal Cyber Defense Skilling Academy is a 12-week cohort program created for federal employees to develop the baseline knowledge, skills, and abilities of a Cyber Defense Analyst (CDA). Open source software is part of the foundation of the digital infrastructure we all rely upon. Manufacturers of AI systems must prioritize security throughout the whole lifecycle of the product. The National Security Agency’s Artificial Intelligence Security Center (NSA AISC), along with CISA and other U.S. and international partners, published this guidance for organizations deploying and operating externally developed AI systems. CISA is proud to collaborate with the National Cybersecurity Alliance to share tips, tools, and resources for individuals and families.
- Make sure your business is cyber secure so you don’t experience an incident that could impact critical services.
- It outlines key risks that may arise from data security and integrity issues across all phases of the AI lifecycle.
- These exercises provide stakeholders with effective and practical mechanisms to identify best practices, lessons learned, and areas for improvement in plans and procedures.
- CISA conducts cyber and physical security exercises with government and industry partners to enhance security and resilience of critical infrastructure.
CISA Releases Two Industrial Control Systems Advisories
The playbook guides AI providers, developers, and adopters on voluntarily sharing AI-related cybersecurity information with CISA and partners. It encourages adoption of key practices to strengthen collective defenses against AI-related threats. This information sheet highlights the critical role of data security in ensuring the accuracy & integrity of AI outcomes. It outlines key risks that may arise from data security and integrity issues across all phases of the AI lifecycle. The Assessment Evaluation and Standardization (AES) program is designed to enable organizations to have a trained individual that can perform several cybersecurity assessments and reviews in accordance with industry and/or federal information security standards.
Iranian Cyber Actors May Target Vulnerable US Networks and Entities of Interest
The exercise series brings together the public and private sectors to simulate discovery of and response to a significant cyber incident impacting the Nation’s critical infrastructure. This team proactively gathers, analyzes, and shares actionable cyber risk information to enable synchronized, holistic cybersecurity planning, cyber defense, and response. A common set of protections that all critical infrastructure entities – from large to small – should implement to meaningfully reduce the likelihood and impact of known risks and adversary techniques. It’s time to build cybersecurity into the design and manufacture of technology products.
CISA’s Federal Cyber Defense Skilling Academy
As part of our continuing mission to reduce cybersecurity and physical security risk, CISA provides a robust offering of cybersecurity and critical infrastructure training opportunities. CISA is enhancing cybersecurity resilience nationwide by equipping state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments with direct funding, no-cost tools, and cybersecurity services and expertise. CISA offers free Industrial Control Systems (ICS) cybersecurity training to protect against cyber-attacks to critical infrastructure, such as power grids and water treatment facilities. CISA’s ICS training is globally recognized for its relevance and available virtually around the world.
Healthcare and Public Health Cybersecurity
In light of the risk and potential consequences of cyber events, CISA strengthens the security and resilience of cyberspace, an important homeland security mission. CISA offers a range of cybersecurity services and resources focused on operational resilience, cybersecurity practices, organizational management of external dependencies, and other key elements of a robust and resilient cyber framework. CISA helps individuals and organizations communicate current cyber trends and attacks, manage cyber risks, strengthen defenses, and implement preventative measures. CISA’s Acting Director discusses our focus on government entities and small and medium businesses that are vital to protecting the systems and services that sustain us every day and make America a great place to live and do business. CISA is committed to supporting the national cyber workforce and protecting the nation’s cyber infrastructure.
CISA’s no-cost Incident Response Training curriculum provides a range of training offerings for beginner and intermediate cyber professionals encompassing basic cybersecurity awareness and best practices for organizations and hands-on cyber range training courses for incident response. CISA conducts cyber and physical security exercises with government and industry partners to enhance security and resilience of critical infrastructure. These exercises provide stakeholders with effective and practical mechanisms to identify best practices, lessons learned, and areas for improvement in plans and procedures.
The Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program supports government-wide and agency-specific efforts to provide risk-based, consistent, and cost-effective cybersecurity solutions to protect federal civilian networks across all organizational tiers. Together, CISA brings technical expertise as the nation’s cyber defense agency, HHS offers extensive expertise in healthcare and public health, and the tio markets HSCC Cybersecurity Working Group offers the practical expertise of industry experts. CISA offers a range of cybersecurity assessments that evaluate operational resilience, cybersecurity practices, organizational management of external dependencies, and other key elements of a robust and resilient cyber framework. This year’s theme is Building a Cyber Strong America, highlighting the need to strengthen the country’s infrastructure against cyber threats, ensuring resilience and security. This course is ideal for those working in cybersecurity roles who are interested in learning technical incident response skills and requires active engagement from all participants.
This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, commit to having better cybersecurity in your organization to protect customers, communities and critical infrastructure. Explore the cybersecurity services CISA offers that are available to Federal Government; State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Government; Industry; Educational Institutions; and General Public stakeholders. CISA’s Federal Cyber Defense Skilling Academy provides full-time federal employees an opportunity to focus on professional growth through an intense, full-time, three-month accelerated training program. Critical infrastructure relies on small and medium business to supply, support, or even operate services we all rely on. Make sure your business is cyber secure so you don’t experience an incident that could impact critical services. Use CISA’s resources to gain important cybersecurity best practices knowledge and skills.
AI Data Security: Best Practices for Securing Data Used to Train & Operate AI Systems
- This information sheet highlights the critical role of data security in ensuring the accuracy & integrity of AI outcomes.
- Together, CISA brings technical expertise as the nation’s cyber defense agency, HHS offers extensive expertise in healthcare and public health, and the HSCC Cybersecurity Working Group offers the practical expertise of industry experts.
- CISA is committed to supporting the national cyber workforce and protecting the nation’s cyber infrastructure.
- Open source software is part of the foundation of the digital infrastructure we all rely upon.
CISA has resources and messaging for organizations to use to build their own campaigns. Read about how, by just reporting suspicious activity or strange behavior, you play an essential role in keeping our communities safe and secure. Government’s official one-stop location for resources to tackle ransomware more effectively.
SAFECOM works to improve emergency communications interoperability across local, regional, tribal, state, territorial, international borders, and with federal government entities. The CISA Tabletop Exercise Package (CTEP) is designed to assist critical infrastructure owners and operators in developing their own tabletop exercises to meet the specific needs of their facilities and stakeholders. The ACSC, along with CISA and other U.S. and international partners, published a paper summarizing some important threats related to AI systems and prompting organizations to consider steps they can take to engage with AI while managing risk. Refer to cybersecurity Tips and Cyber Essentials for more information from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on how to improve your cybersecurity posture and protect yourself and from cyberattacks. CISA hosts and participates in events throughout the year to engage stakeholders, seek research partners, and communicate with the public to help protect the homeland. Guidelines for providers of any systems that use artificial intelligence (AI), whether those systems have been created from scratch or built on top of tools and services provided by others.
CISA’s Emergency Directive calls federal agencies to identify and mitigate potential compromise of Cisco devices to address vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances and Cisco Firepower devices. Discover how AI red teaming fits into proven software evaluation frameworks to enhance safety and security. Among these dangers are malware erasing your entire system, an attacker breaking into your system and altering files, an attacker using your computer to attack others, or an attacker stealing your credit card information and making unauthorized purchases. There is no guarantee that even with the best precautions some of these things won’t happen to you, but there are steps you can take to minimize the chances.