CISA Webinar: How is 5G Impacting Emergency Communications?
By Crystal Hutchinson |
How is 5G Impacting Emergency Communications? June 29, 2022 – 12:00 pm Central (1:00 pm ET) | Webinar Link New and emerging technologies offer advanced capabilities to enhance command, control, and situational awareness for emergency response. Yet, the rapid rate of technology advancement continues to outpace the public safety community’s acquisition cycle. For example, the…
Read More CISA Launches a Vehicle Ramming Self-Assessment Tool
By Crystal Hutchinson |
CISA Launches a Vehicle Ramming Self-Assessment Tool The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is pleased to announce the launch of the Vehicle Ramming Self-Assessment Tool. CISA, in collaboration with the Chicago Police Department, developed the tool to assist the law enforcement community and critical infrastructure stakeholders with evaluating public gathering areas against the risk…
Read More DHS/CISA Region 6 Active Shooter Preparedness Training Webinar
By Crystal Hutchinson |
DHS/CISA Region 6 Active Shooter Preparedness Training Webinar Tuesday, July 26, 2022 10:00 a.m. Central Time (11:00 a.m. EDT) THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) invites you to join a two-hour security webinar to enhance awareness of and response…
Read More CISA, NSA, and FBI Issue Joint Cyber Advisory on People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Exploitation of Network Providers and Devices
By Crystal Hutchinson |
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory about how the People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actors continue to exploit publicly known vulnerabilities in order to establish a broad infrastructure network. These actors use the network to exploit a…
Read More CISA’s Office for Bombing Prevention Releases Bomb Threat Video
By Crystal Hutchinson |
CISA’s Office for Bombing Prevention Releases Bomb Threat Video In January and February 2022 alone, a total of 67 bomb threats were reported against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) nationwide. The threats serve as a stark reminder that bombs pose a serious threat to our local communities, as well as to public and private…
Read More CISA: Quarterly ChemLock Trainings
By Crystal Hutchinson |
CISA: Quarterly ChemLock Trainings In addition to trainings specifically requested by an organization, CISA’s ChemLock program provides the ChemLock: Introduction to Chemical Security training course quarterly on a first-come, first-serve basis. This course introduces how to identify, assess, evaluate, and mitigate chemical security risks. This easy-to-understand overview identifies key components and best practices of…
Read More CISA Releases Secure Tomorrow Series Toolkit
By Crystal Hutchinson |
CISA Releases Secure Tomorrow Series Toolkit In a constantly changing and complex operating environment, perfectly accurate forecasts about the future are impossible. CISA’s Secure Tomorrow Series is a strategic foresight capability that looks at future risk drivers and trends-such as aging infrastructure, global pandemics, and emerging technologies- that could affect the nation’s critical infrastructure in…
Read More CISA: Cyber Training Bulletin (June – July)
By Crystal Hutchinson |
Cyber Training Bulletin (June – July) Incident Response We offer cybersecurity incident response training for government employees and contractors across Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government, and is open to educational and critical infrastructure partners. The incident response curriculum provides a range of training offerings for beginner, intermediate, and advanced cyber professionals encompassing basic cybersecurity…
Read More What/Who is Cisa?
On November 16, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, which elevated the mission of the former NPPD within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), establishing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). CISA is a successor agency to NPPD and assists both other government agencies and private sector organizations in addressing infrastructure and cybersecurity issues.
IRPT works closely with CISA to inform the inland river industry of available training courses offered by CISA, current potential threats to infrastructure and/or cyber that could adversely impact industry, and free services CISA provides that are available to industry.
CISA subcomponents include the:
- Cybersecurity Division
- Infrastructure Security Division
- Emergency Communications Division
- National Risk Management Center
- Integrated Operations Division
- Stakeholder Engagement Division
- National Emergency Technology Guard (inactive, but can be activated by the director of CISA)
Regional/District Contacts:
