The protection of election infrastructure is essential to our country’s national security. Through concentrated efforts to maintain best practices for both the physical and cybersecurity of elections, CISA and election officials can help ensure that our elections remain safe, secure, and resilient.
Investment in our nation’s critical infrastructure is vital to build resilience and increase security against potential threats and disruptions. The historic infrastructure bill in conjunction with federal programs are key to enhancing infrastructure resiliency and furthering mitigation initiatives.
In today’s globally interconnected world our critical infrastructure face an array of risks when it comes to cybersecurity. Creating a data breach response plan helps manage risk and decrease severity of breaches.
In a world dominated by social media, the failure to send or receive a message instantaneously can seem like a matter of life or death. But when faced with an actual disaster or crisis, reaching your target audience at a moment’s notice can significantly impact your ability to save lives.
Social distancing is essential to prevent community transmission of coronavirus. Unlike self-quarantine or isolation, social distancing places no locational constraints and instead focuses on behavioral practices to decrease the risk of exposure.
The spread of misinformation and disinformation or “fake news” during a disaster can cause confusion and pose a threat to public safety.
In the 1970s, devastating wildfires in California revealed several major faults in the command structure and gave rise to the Incident Command System (ICS), which later evolved into the National Incident Management System (NIMS). Today, the National Response Framework (NRF) builds upon those systems and defines a common operating picture (COP) as “a continuously updated […]
Disasters have cost taxpayers over $104 billion in nine years. That is, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the amount that the Disaster Relief Fund has paid out from fiscal years 2005 to 2014 for disaster response, recovery, and mitigation.[1] Just in the last eight years, there have been over 900 Presidentially declared disasters, […]
New Ideas and Old Problems Innovation and maintenance are terms tossed around a lot when it comes to emergency planning, and plenty of other fields and professions for that matter. An emergency plan might be considered innovative if it uses a new approach, promotes the use of new technology, or borrows ideas from other fields. […]
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