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A keystone of the Biden-Harris Administration’s cybersecurity commitment is strengthening the resilience of the United States’ critical infrastructure to safeguard the services Americans rely on every day. Today, the Administration continued to deliver on this commitment by expanding the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Initiative to a fourth sector – the chemical sector.
The majority of chemical companies are privately owned, so we need a collaborative approach between the private sector and government. The nation’s leading chemical companies and the government’s lead agency for the chemical sector – the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) – have agreed on a plan to promote a higher standard of cybersecurity across the sector, including capabilities that enable visibility and threat detection for industrial control systems.
The Chemical Action Plan will serve as a roadmap to guide the sector’s assessment of their current cybersecurity practices over the next 100 days, building on the lessons learned and best practices of the previously launched action plans for the electric, pipeline, and water sectors to meet the needs for this sector. The Chemical Action Plan will:
The ICS Cybersecurity Initiatives emphasizes that cybersecurity continues to be a top priority for the Administration.
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