Overview

The President’s National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience (NSM-22, April 30, 2024) describes critical infrastructure as those physical and virtual assets and systems so vital to the Nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the national security, national economic security, or national public health or safety. 

NSM-22 also highlights that the United States faces an era of strategic competition with nation-state actors who target American critical infrastructure and tolerate or enable malicious action conducted by non-state actors. These adversaries target our critical infrastructure using licit and illicit means to compromise critical infrastructure to undermine the will and ability of the American government to fulfill missions and carry out the daily activities of life in the United States.

It is the purpose of NSM-22 to advance our national unity of effort to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning, and resilient critical infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA), Executive Agencies, and critical infrastructure Sector Risk Management Agencies (SRMAs) are directed to develop and submit a National Infrastructure Risk Management Plan which will identify, assess, inform, and recommend actions to reduce risk to the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure.

This briefing will explore the intention behind NSM-22 and the National Infrastructure Risk Management Plan, and how Risk Management Assessments can identify risks to critical infrastructure and prioritize actionable plans to reduce, respond to, and/or mitigate risk impact in the situation of a risk event.  

Recommended attending personnel:

CEO, CIO, CTO and Senior IT personnel, program personnel responsible for IT project management, procurement personnel responsible for IT and Cyber Security contracts.

Access: This briefing uses a Zoom-based communication connection via your network. This briefing will be accessible via phone if you are unable to connect online and recorded versions will be distributed with closed-caption for the hearing impaired. Instructions for login will be provided upon registration.

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