The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has outlined three goals in its first international roadmap for the proactive engagement of foreign partners to bolster the security and resilience of critical U.S. infrastructure.
CISA Director Jen Easterly said the agency’s 2025–2026 International Strategic Plan released on Tuesday will pave the way for improving coordination and strengthening relationships with allies “to reduce risk to the globally interconnected and interdependent cyber and physical infrastructure that Americans rely on every day.”
The Plan in Three Parts
One of the objectives of the three-pronged strategic plan focuses on pinpointing the priority infrastructures critical to bolstering U.S. security and resilience. To pursue this goal, CISA will boost its coordination with U.S. government agencies and global and domestic partners on the prioritized foreign critical infrastructure and supply chains.
CISA’s global strategy also calls for strengthening integrated cyber defense to lower shared risks through increased engagements of the U.S. bilateral and multilateral Computer Security Incident Response Team.
As the agency’s third goal, CISA will unify and standardize its inter-agency processes and procedures for international activities.
CISA’s recent globally oriented work covered coordination with the National Security Agency, the FBI and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center in a collaborative project with counterparts in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea to establish guidelines on creating and maintaining a safe and secure environment for operational technology.
