CNSS: Interagency Partnering to Protect Our National Security Systems; Journal article

摘要

The United States faces increasing threats in the homeland security, cyber security, and information sharing environments, and the need for increased cooperation among key members of government, industry, academia, the private sector, and allied nations has never been greater. The Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) provides an interagency forum for addressing Information Assurance (IA) policy issues impacting critical NSS. The CNSS performs the vital function of mobilizing the full, interagency National Security Community for the protection of telecommunications and information systems that support U.S. national security. Through its membership and partnerships (a total of 21 members and 10 observers from the executive branch of the U.S. Government) the CNSS has a history of addressing vulnerabilities that have the potential to impact the national security community's ability to safeguard key systems. In 2007, the CNSS made significant contributions to federal, state, local, and coalition security efforts across five areas. This article describes these recent accomplishments of the CNSS and individual federal departments and agencies along with priorities for 2008. The five areas are as follows: (1) Assured Information Sharing, (2) Managing Risk, (3) Identity Assurance, (4) Network Resilience for Mission Assurance sharing, and (5) Building and Sustaining the IA Work Force.