CISA's Easterly Unveils Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC)

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CISA's Easterly Unveils Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative
Newly Appointed Director Describes Effort to Build National Cybersecurity Defense Strategy
August 5, 2021
https://www.databreachtoday.com/cisas-easterly-unveils-joint-cyber-defense-collaborative-a-17225

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is creating the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to build a national cybersecurity defense strategy based on collaboration between the public and private sectors, CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a virtual presentation at the Black Hat 2021 conference Thursday.

Participants in the JCDC will include federal agencies, state and local officials, owners and operators of U.S. critical infrastructure, and academics and security researchers, she said.

"We know that with great power comes great responsibility," Easterly said. "One of my big priorities as a director is to ensure that we are maximizing this power and that is to cultivate and strengthen the incredible partnerships that we have - in particular with industry, with academia, with researchers within the hacker community - and to ensure that we are leveraging the best and brightest of this community for the collective defense of the nation."
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New Initiative
Easterly said the JCDC will perform several functions, including:

Sharing insights about the current threat landscape to better understand and develop a comprehensive cyber defense plan, including ways to better protect critical infrastructure;

Developing exercises involving the government and the private sector to test defense plans and ensure the resilience of systems, networks and infrastructure;

Putting these defensive plans into operation to reduce risks to the nation's critical infrastructure and IT networks.

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Besides CISA and its parent organization, the Department of Homeland Security, other federal government participants will include the U.S. National Security Agency, U.S. Cyber Command and the FBI. Easterly announced nine companies have signed up to participate,: CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, FireEye, Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon and Lumen.
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