The ICIT Strategic Partner Webcast “Why Trust and Data Integrity Are the Cornerstones of AI for the Public Sector” is now available to watch. This timely discussion explores how agencies can operationalize transparency, governance, and secure data practices to deploy AI systems that are resilient, accountable, and mission-ready.

ICIT’s Center for FCEB Resilience marked a pivotal year advancing civilian cyber resilience through research, convenings, and public-private collaboration. See how government, industry, and partners are strengthening the federal enterprise—and how your organization can help lead the next phase.

Explore why space capabilities are essential to U.S. national strategy and critical infrastructure in this SC Media perspective. Learn how satellite systems, space policy, and commercial innovation underpin communications, defense, navigation, and resilience in an era of growing geopolitical competition.

Learn why cyber risk is a critical concern for the U.S. water sector and how the Sector Risk Management Agency (EPA) and public-private partners are working to protect utilities from cyber threats. This SC Media perspective highlights evolving risks, resource gaps, and collaborative solutions that help keep water safe and flowing.

Discover how West Virginia is advancing cyber resilience nationwide. From WVU Cyber’s community-focused programs to strategic partnerships that protect critical systems, this post highlights innovation, workforce development, and infrastructure security for the digital future.

Uncovers the hidden cybersecurity risks posed by foreign-owned and operated technologies in U.S. ports—and why modernizing maritime security is now a national imperative.

The new National Security Strategy reframes cyber and critical infrastructure as instruments of national power—not just governance. This op-ed examines how the NSS elevates infrastructure resilience, public-private coordination, and technology leadership as core pillars of U.S. security in an era of escalating digital conflict.

ICIT organizes its focus area on critical infrastructure into three interdependent pillars that incorporate four of the sixteen critical infrastructure sectors: Energy & Grid, Water & Wastewater, and Transportation & Telecommunications. In 2026, we will be examining these pillars through the lens of topics like Defense Critical Infrastructure, Cyber Force, Drones, Federal Civilian Executive Branch, and Data Centers & Artificial Intelligence.

In this SC Media perspectives piece, Dr. Darren Death, ICIT Fellow shares his perspective to use RMF as it was intended, as an engineering framework that links security requirements to system behavior and verifies those relationships continuously. The framework already defines a complete model for continuous authorization. It must be executed as part of engineering and operations rather than as a separate compliance process.

Hosted by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) and co sponsored by Rocket Software and MFGS, Inc., “The Future of Government Data, AI Automation & Mission-Ready Modernization” brought together distinguished figures from the defense-focused public and private sectors.

In a recent conversation hosted by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), Cory Simpson, CEO of ICIT, welcomed Barry Mainz, CEO of Forescout Technologies, to discuss the pressing need to modernize and secure the nation’s critical infrastructure.

We live in a representative democracy—where the people in Washington work for you. While the inner workings of D.C. can feel distant, complex, even outdated, they must be understood because they shape how America safeguards its interests and advances our way of life.

Cyberattacks are targeting the infrastructure we rely on every day—hospitals, power grids, supply chains. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA 2015) enables private companies and the federal government to share threat data quickly and safely. With the law set to expire in September, reauthorization is critical to protect national security and keep Americans safe.

As the Trump administration refines its cybersecurity, resilience, and critical infrastructure security strategies—most recently through its June 2025 Executive Order amending EO 14144 and EO 13694—it continues to build upon the vision laid out in the 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS), the most comprehensive articulation to date of how the U.S. government (USG) aims to secure our digital future.

Navigating Uncertainty in Government Cloud Security As federal agencies enter 2025, they face an increasingly volatile cybersecurity landscape, with state-sponsored threat actors—particularly from China—mounting persistent and sophisticated attacks against critical infrastructure. The evolving threat environment underscores the urgent need for cyber resilience, as advocated by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) through its 4 Rs of Digital Resilience.

Small businesses are more than just local establishments—they are the foundation of the U.S. economy and a key pillar of national security.

The security of critical infrastructure is essential to national security. It is essential that there be a core authority that is responsible for its cybersecurity. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, is an entity essential to supporting national security and critical infrastructure security. CISA provides a level of centralization that is crucial to supporting security at the national level, including supporting critical infrastructure. The core mi

Cybersecurity legislation is vital to address the growing number of cyberattacks that threaten the economic and national security of the United States. Consequently, 2022 was a significant year for cybersecurity legislation, with six major pieces of legislation signed into law. These laws focused on cyber incidents and ransomware attacks, reporting requirements, assigning cybersecurity responsibilities to CISA, the cybersecurity workforce, and state and local government cyber