CIAS building risk management tools for state, local agencies
To keep pace with growing cybersecurity threats, governments must first be able to identify, categorize and prioritize their high-value IT assets, the loss or corruption of which would seriously impact their ability to deliver on essential missions.
Thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) is launching a two-year pilot program to help state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) governments better protect themselves against cyberattacks and align their practices with those of the federal government.
CIAS will deliver scalable guidelines, forms, templates, diagrams and tools to support program management, information sharing and best practices that communities can use with their own risk management framework, available resources and authorities. After testing the tools with a select number of SLTT agencies, CIAS will document lessons learned and provide CISA with recommendations on how to…
