CISA tells critical organizations to prepare for cyber outages

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CISA urges critical infrastructure organizations to prepare for potential cyber outages and operate without technology services during crises.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging water, power and other critical infrastructure organizations to prepare to operate without internet and other technology services. That’s the overarching goal of a new initiative unveiled by CISA this week. The agency says organizations need to be prepared to operate through IT outages and other challenges during a geopolitical crisis. For more, Federal News Network Justin Doubleday joins me. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Terry Gerton

Guest: Justin Doubleday

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• critical infrastructure
• IT outages
• geopolitical crisis
• preparedness

Keywords

• CISA
• cyber outages
• critical organizations
• infrastructure
• preparedness

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Organizations: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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