{"id":239835,"date":"2026-05-05T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/cisa-tells-critical-organizations-to-prepare-for-cyber-outages\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:20:07","slug":"cisa-tells-critical-organizations-to-prepare-for-cyber-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/cisa-tells-critical-organizations-to-prepare-for-cyber-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"CISA tells critical organizations to prepare for cyber outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/05\/cisa-tells-critical-organizations-to-prepare-for-cyber-outages\/\">CISA tells critical organizations to prepare for cyber outages<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/05\/cisa-tells-critical-organizations-to-prepare-for-cyber-outages\/\">https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/05\/cisa-tells-critical-organizations-to-prepare-for-cyber-outages\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 17:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"federalnewsnetwork.com\">federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency \u2013 fresh out of the longest shutdown in government history and ready to begin hiring again after shedding staff for the past year \u2013 is out with new cybersecurity crisis planning guidance for critical infrastructure organizations.<\/p>\n<p>CISA\u2019s new \u201cCI Fortify\u201d initiative notably pushes water utilities, the transportation sector and other critical infrastructure organizations to plan for a \u201cgeopolitical crisis\u201d involving cyber attacks that could sever their connections to internet, telecommunications and other technology services.<\/p>\n<p>CISA\u2019s guidance features two primary emergency planning objectives: \u201cisolation\u201d and \u201crecovery\u201d to mitigate threats. The former involves \u201cproactively disconnecting from third-party and business networks\u201d to safeguard operational technology, such as industrial control systems, from cyber attack during a crisis. CISA says organizations should be prepared to sustain \u201cessential operations\u201d rather than completely shutting down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecovery\u201d involves documenting systems, backing up critical files, and practicing \u201cthe replacement of systems or the transition to manual\u201d in case a cyber attack shuts down critical systems, according to CISA.<\/p>\n<p>]]<\/p>\n<p>CISA says it plans to perform \u201ctargeted assessments\u201d of how prepared certain critical infrastructure organizations are to meet CI Fortify\u2019s objectives. CISA is prioritizing \u201cdefense critical infrastructure,\u201d meaning systems that are crucial to military forces and operations, including dams, radars, weapon systems, satellite communications and other facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Acting CISA Director Nick Andersen said the cyber agency has already started evaluating some organizations, which he declined to identify.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already started to kick off the first couple of assessments under a pilot phase of this initiative that is already up and moving,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/05\/cisa-tells-critical-organizations-to-prepare-for-cyber-outages\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CISA tells critical organizations to prepare for cyber outages https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/05\/cisa-tells-critical-organizations-to-prepare-for-cyber-outages\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-05 17:46:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2198621098-e1761175896525.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-239835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239839,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239835\/revisions\/239839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}