The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has launched CI Fortify: Strengthening Resilience Across Critical Infrastructure, a nationwide initiative to bolster the resilience of critical infrastructure against escalating cyber threats.
America’s critical infrastructure (CI) is frequently targeted by malicious nation-state cyber threat actors. These adversaries seek persistent access to vital systems and aim to disrupt essential services such as telecommunications, water, energy and transportation. To address these threats, CI organizations must be able to operate through a crisis or conflict; continuing vital service delivery even as their systems are under attack.
To minimize the impact of a successful attack, CI Fortify centers on two capabilities:
- Isolation: Proactively disconnecting from third-party dependencies and operating without reliable telecommunications, internet, vendors, service providers and upstream dependencies.
- Recovery: Rapidly restoring vital compromised systems while isolated.
Developing these capabilities will help ensure that critical services can withstand and recover from cyberattacks aiming to degrade or disrupt infrastructure.
The CI Fortify webpage is the central resource for CI Fortify guidance and updates. New CI Fortify resources will be published throughout the year.
