OB JEC TIVE 2. 3
Provide cybersecurity capabilities and services that
fill gaps and help measure progress
Our nation benefits from a robust commercial market for cybersecurity capabilities and
services, which CISA cannot and will not seek to supplant or duplicate. Instead, CISA will
provide modern cybersecurity capabilities and services in three cases: (1) for federal
civilian executive branch agencies, where our authorities and resources enable provision
of centralized and shared services that offer necessary visibility, expedited risk reduction,
and significant cost savings; (2) for target rich/resource poor organizations, where limited
resources and sustained adversary interest provide a compelling justification for government
assistance to the degree our authorities allow; and (3) to measure the state of American
cybersecurity and associated trends, which is necessary to guide actionable and impactful
information sharing, guidance, and direction.
In the first case, this will include continuing to expand and modernize the Continuous
Diagnostics and Mitigation program, which now provides extraordinary visibility across nearly
every federal civilian executive branch agency and enables host-level persistent hunting
and response, and our Cybersecurity Shared Services Office, which provides a broadening
portfolio of commercial services from Protective DNS Resolution to Vulnerability Disclosure
Platforms. In the second case, we will provide cybersecurity assessments and, in cases
where our authorities allow us, shared services that meet identified capability gaps and are
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