The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a new update this week to its Secure Tomorrow Series Toolkit to help stakeholders in the critical infrastructure community better prepare for future cyber threats.
The latest update introduces three new topics to the toolkit: information and communications technology (ICT) supply chain resilience, advanced manufacturing, and water availability.
The toolkit now has free, interactive products for nine cybersecurity topics. The other six topics in the toolkit are anonymity and privacy, trust and social cohesion, data storage and transmission, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), synthetic biology, and quantum technologies.
“Each year, CISA selects three topics with significant potential to disrupt multiple National Critical Functions and delves into how these topics might result in emerging and evolving risks that affect critical infrastructure resilience and security,” Erin Walsh, associate director of strategic foresight at CISA, explained in a July 1 blog post.
“CISA uses this knowledge base to build a toolkit of strategic foresight activities,” she added. “The idea is to package proven methods, high quality prompts, and extensive supporting materials together, so that critical infrastructure partners can confidently bring together participants with domain-, regional-, and sector-specific expertise and productively arrive at risk mitigation strategies that are relevant and actionable.”
Walsh explained that the toolkit’s products help participants “distill and distinguish real concerns arising from each topic.”
The toolkit offers fun and challenging activities including matrix games that can be played in a single morning or afternoon session, as well as one-day scenarios workshops.
“The hope is that these activities lead to better insights on risk mitigation that participants can bring back to their organizations, while strengthening networks to engage in further planning and implementation,” Walsh said.
