Objective 5.1: Increase voluntary incident reporting and victim notification to facilitate the provision of response assistance. DHS cybersecurity efforts must be directed to build trusted relationships with entities at greatest risk of experiencing potentially significant cyber incidents. These relationships, especially through DHS field offices and sector specific agencies, help to facilitate the provision of DHS and other federal resources following an incident. DHS must encourage the reporting of incidents, and work with other incident responders to develop consistent processes for notifying potential victims of cyber incidents. Encouraging a culture of reporting, notification, and information sharing will increase the security and resilience of critical infrastructure, help prevent, counter, and disrupt illicit cyber actors, and enable the government to assess and potentially manage responses to incidents of unknown severity. Sub-Objectives: a. Encourage reporting of cyber incidents by nonfederal entities to DHS or other law enforcement agencies, relevant sector specific agencies, and the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC). b. Improve processes to facilitate timely and effective notification to potential victims of cyber incidents by DHS and other agencies, and to enhance sector specific agency awareness of incidents within their sectors. Outcomes: DHS receives reports of cyber incidents and, in appropriate coordination with other agencies, makes timely victim notifications. Objective 5.2: Expand asset response capabilities to mitigate and manage cyber incidents. DHS provides asset response assistance to requesting entities following incidents that pose significant risks to national security, public health and safety, or economic security, or as otherwise appropriate to the circumstances. DHS is also responsible for maintaining shared situational awareness of emerging cybersecurity risks and incidents. During significant cyber incidents, DHS serves as the lead agency for asset response, as part of a Cyber Unified Coordination Group, and supports the White House-led Cyber Response Group. DHS must continue to build capabilities to provide technical assistance and mitigation recommendations, including on-site incident response teams, following cyber incidents. DHS must also leverage incident information to identify emerging risks and protect entities that rely on impacted entities or those at risk of similar incidents. Sub-Objectives: a. Develop technical asset response capabilities to respond to cyber incidents. b. Establish a common operating picture across the Department and with other stakeholders to assess emerging incidents and associated national, regional, or sector risks. c. Build capacity to manage national asset response efforts and support a Cyber Unified Coordination Group and Cyber Response Group following significant incidents. 20