{"id":224765,"date":"2026-03-17T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/cisa-official-advises-agencies-not-to-get-too-hung-up-on-who-takes-lead-in-critical-infrastructure-sectors\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:28:00","slug":"cisa-official-advises-agencies-not-to-get-too-hung-up-on-who-takes-lead-in-critical-infrastructure-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/cisa-official-advises-agencies-not-to-get-too-hung-up-on-who-takes-lead-in-critical-infrastructure-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"CISA official advises agencies not to get too hung up on who takes lead in critical infrastructure sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"

CISA official advises agencies not to get too hung up on who takes lead in critical infrastructure sectors<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-srma-critical-infrastructure-flexible-partnerships-nick-andersen\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-17 17:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. government shouldn\u2019t rigidly stick to traditional designations about which agency takes the lead on engaging with critical infrastructure sectors, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Sector risk management agency designations have long governed which agency is at the forefront of government efforts to protect each of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors, with CISA responsible for eight of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we look at our sector risk management agency construct, that\u2019s important for a lot of reasons, It\u2019s less important to abide by that strictly and say \u2018CISA is the Sector Risk Management Agency for telecommunications,\u2019\u201d CISA\u2019s Nick Andersen said at an event hosted by Auburn University\u2019s McCrary Institute.<\/p>\n

Rather, when responding to cyber incidents or undertaking other engagements with the private sector, the question should be who has the best relationship with a certain sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may have some owner-operators within a certain critical infrastructure sector that maybe the person they\u2019re best positioned to receive resources from is us, or maybe it\u2019s [Department of] Energy, or maybe it\u2019s EPA, or maybe it\u2019s FBI or NSA, or so forth and so on,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just have to be comfortable with taking off those blinders and saying, \u2018I don\u2019t necessarily need to be in charge all the time no matter who I am. I just need to make sure that this owner-operator has the best partner teed up to lead that engagement.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal is to avoid another \u201cGuam situation,\u201d where \u201ceverybody was racing to Guam the last couple of years like kids chasing a soccer ball,\u201d Andersen said. Guam was the site of critical infrastructure attacks on U.S. military bases that Microsoft pinned on the Chinese hacking group Volt Typhoon in 2023.<\/p>\n

An attack on the telecommunications sector from another \u201cTyphoon\u201d group, Salt Typhoon, prompted questions about whether…<\/p>\n

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