The House Homeland Security Committee’s cybersecurity and infrastructure protection subpanel has asked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about its role in the establishment of the Energy Threat Analysis Center and how it engages with ETAC.
The House panel is making the inquiry amid the lack of clarity about the future of CISA’s partnership with ETAC and the Analysis & Resilience Center for Systemic Risk, according to an Aug. 28 letter addressed to CISA Director and two-time Wash100 awardee Jen Easterly.
The subcommittee has asked CISA of any plans to absorb the risk register methodology of ARC and ETAC as a “spoke” of the agency’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, how it supports cross-sector systemic risk and resilience efforts as it moves toward a sector-specific approach and how it intends to resource any expansion of JCDC’s spokes with the budget request for fiscal year 2024.
“The ARC model has proven effective and I encourage CISA to continue bolstering established partnerships. These partnerships will be crucial for the agency’s broader public-private partnership strategy, at a time when threats from adversarial nations are unrelenting,” the letter reads.
CISA has been asked to brief the House panel no later than Sept. 28.
