Last month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), published two important resources that deserve special attention. While many of these CISA status reports may seem a bit like “alphabet soup” to those not familiar with the process, the importance of this National Critical Function (NCF) topic is paramount to our joint efforts to protect our nation’s critical infrastructure from numerous threats.
The “NCF: Status Update to the Critical Infrastructure Community” was released directly to stakeholders in July 2020, and the NCF Fact Sheet is new.
The release of this NCF report on progress in protecting our National Critical Functions is ground-breaking. In order to better understand the importance of this topic and dive deeper into what it means, I interviewed Thad Odderstol,…