Written by Adriana V. of FTI Consulting. Originally published on LinkedIn. Outside the cybersecurity industry, most business executives do not know what an ISAC is or what’s in it for them. However, these powerful, and at times, underestimated industry consortiums bring tremendous value to their companies, industry sectors, and societies at large. Industry-Specific Collaboration Hubs Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (“ISACs”) were created in 1998 in response to a US P

Originally posted by the IT-ISAC at: https://www.it-isac.org/post/isacs-beyond-information-sharing The IT-ISAC recently participated in a panel on Capitol Hill with fellow ISACs through the “ISACs on the Hill” event organized by the National Council of ISACs. This provided the ISAC community an excellent forum to convey how ISACs individually and collectively add value to their members and across the critical infrastructure community. With the first ISAC being established 20

It is no secret to say that a key part of risk management is efficiently applying limited resources to maximum effect. The goal is to prioritize what needs protecting and understand what they need protection from. As anyone who does risk management knows, this is a deceptively complicated task for any enterprise, but when your responsibility is to secure the homeland, this task is immensely complicated. . . Read more about the IT-ISAC and a critical functions-based approa

As leaders look to what to expect in 2019, there are hopes that the critical infrastructure community will more fully embrace cross-sector coordination. That’s an idea the NCI has been championing for fifteen years, and an area of emphasis that will continue in 2019 and beyond. Too many cookies, another Detroit Lions loss, and a slew of predictions for next year… it must be that wonderful time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s! From what will be trending to what the big hea

IT-ISAC Executive Director Scott Algeier interviews National Council of ISACs (NCI) Chair and Health-ISAC President Denise Anderson for Episode 1 of FireWall Chats with IT-ISAC. Scott and Denise discuss NCI, ISACs and the Health-ISAC.

Check out this great post by Peder Jungck on the value of ISACs. Jungck is president of the IT-ISAC and the vice president / general manager of intelligence solutions at BAE Systems, Inc. Here are some key excerpts: Although the U.S. government has a stake in the security of these critical infrastructures, most are owned or operated by private industry. This dichotomy—how to secure nationally critical assets and functions that are owned by the private sector—has been a key