What is cybersecurity? Cybersecurity is the art of protecting networks, devices, and data from unauthorized access or criminal use and the practice of ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
Cybersecurity The Department of Homeland Security and its components play a lead role in strengthening cybersecurity resilience across the nation and sectors, investigating malicious cyber activity, and advancing cybersecurity alongside our democratic values and principles.
CISA tracks and shares information about the latest cybersecurity threats to protect our nation against serious, ever-evolving cyber dangers.
Cybersecurity Training & Exercises CISA looks to enable the cyber-ready workforce of tomorrow by leading training and education of the cybersecurity workforce by providing training for federal employees, private-sector cybersecurity professionals, critical infrastructure operators, educational partners, and the general public.
What Zero Trust Means for Cybersecurity ZT principles assume the entire network is compromised. That point of view provides a collection of concepts and ideas designed to minimize uncertainty by enforcing precise, least privilege per-request access decisions within information systems and services. The goal is to prevent unauthorized access to data and services and make access control ...
Cybersecurity Advisory: Provides detailed information on cyber threats, including threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures and indicators of compromise, along with recommended actions for detection, mitigation, and response.
CISA has curated a database of no-cost cybersecurity services and tools as part of our continuing mission to reduce cybersecurity risk across U.S. critical infrastructure partners and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. What's Included CISA's no-cost, in-house cybersecurity services designed to help individuals and organizations build and maintain a robust and resilient cyber ...
CYBERSECURITY PLAN NOTE: This template is provided as an optional tool for eligible entities to use (as needed) to develop their cybersecurity plan. This template includes key requirements of the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. Ultimately, eligible entities are encouraged to develop a plan that reflects their unique situation while meeting program requirements. This includes using ...
CYBER.ORG, a cybersecurity workforce development organization, enables K-12 educators and students to build cybersecurity educational foundations, cyber literacy, cyber career awareness and technical cybersecurity skills.
Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals A common set of protections that all critical infrastructure entities - from large to small - should implement to meaningfully reduce the likelihood and impact of known risks and adversary techniques.