CISA has a new portal to help you help the country: report a cyber incident and assist in the analysis of threat information as well as the capture of criminal hackers.
CISA Opens Cybercrime Reporting Portal
While the United States Secret Service has been grabbing the headlines with multi-million dollar bounties on the heads of the most wanted hackers from around the world, the U.S. Government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has quietly launched a new CISA services portal with a cyber-incident reporting scheme to help identify them in the first place.
The New CISA Services Portal
The Voluntary Cyber Incident Reporting resource is part of a newly launched CISA Services Portal that’s packed with the resources needed to assist with the fallout of any cyber incident, along with a healthy frequently asked questions section. CISA said the new portal is part of an ongoing effort to improve the whole cyber incident reporting process.
The portal itself is available with integration for those partner organizations holding login.gov credentials, but there is also an anonymous route to access it, including incident reporting, that doesn’t require registration. As you would expect, this is a secure platform, and CISA encourages all organizations to participate in the services that the new streamlined portal and voluntary report system offer. These services include the ReadySetCyber program that helps organizations to understand cyber risk and build a customized roadmap of available resources, the enhanced Crossfeed asset-scanning platform, and a chat system that connects to the regional CISA cybersecurity advisor in one of ten regional offices.
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The CISA Voluntary Cyber Incident Reporting Service
When it comes to the CISA voluntary cyber incident reporting resource itself this has been developed to help guide incident reports through what can sometimes be a daunting process at the most difficult of times. The system has been designed specifically to help organizations better understand the who, why, when, what and how of incident reporting: who should report an incident, why and when it should be reported, what and how to report it. It’s important to note that the CISA reporting service is open to all organizations regardless of whether they are subject to regulatory reporting requirements. Using the service can benefit all across government and industry and inform a better collective understanding of the cyber threatscape. Essentially, it is the patriotic thing to do: your country really does need you to report a hacker.
Report a Cyber Incident to CISA
“CISA and our government partners have unique resources and tools to aid with response and recovery,” Jeff Greene, CISA executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said, “but we can’t help if we don’t know about an incident.” Sharing incident reporting information helps CISA to “work with our full breadth of partners so that the attackers can’t use the same techniques on other victims,” Greene concluded, “and can provide insight into the scale of an adversary’s campaign.”
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