Whether it’s protecting a government-supported effort to produce coronavirus vaccines and treatments, or preventing interference in this November’s election, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is working with industry partners to stay on top of the latest cyber threats.

In order to get a better sense of the biggest threats to national critical infrastructure, CISA is working with an Energy Department national laboratory to create a new cyber-risk framework.

Daniel Kroese, the acting deputy assistant director of CISA’s National Risk Management Center, said the National Critical Functions Risk Architecture won’t be the “perfect formula that predicts the future” of major cyber risks, but the big-data platform will identify some of the “common pathways” of cyber attacks on sectors such as energy, telecommunications and finance.

CISA’s rollout of its cyber framework comes at a time when the agency has shifted to emerging areas in need of protection, and better to quantify the “cyber loss” from incidents in the private sector.

Kroese said those impacts can…

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