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The U.S. Congress created The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to identify threats, share information and assist with incident response in defense of the nation’s critical infrastructure.
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a new federal agency, created to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure.

It was created through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, which was signed into law on November 16, 2018. That legislation “rebranded” the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and transferred resources and responsibilities of NPPD to the newly created agency. Prior to the passage of the bill, NPPD managed almost all of DHS’s cybersecurity-related matters.

CISA is responsible for protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure from physical and cyber threats. Its mission is to “build the national capacity to defend against cyber attacks” and to work “with the federal government to provide cybersecurity tools, incident response services and assessment capabilities to safeguard the .gov networks that support the essential operations of partner departments and agencies.”

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