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www . AmericanSecurityToday . com July 2022 - Edition 62 July 2022 - Edition 62 rity and investigative agencies in their investigations of these incidents .
While information sharing as a directive is essential , it will take a full-throttle effort between the public sector , contractors , and the cybersecurity community to share best practices and develop defensive strategies for eventually lowering the risk of a cyberattack by a foreign government .
The more transparency and communication we have across public , private , and corporate entities , the better off we ’ ll be as an industry and nation .
2 . Adopting a standard federal government cybersecurity playbook
A key challenge to ensuring the uniform hardening of federal government networks is each agency has different vulnerability and incident response procedures .
To ensure a more coordinated and centralized approach , through its Executive Order , the Administration charged CISA with developing a standard set of operational procedures to plan and conduct vulnerability and response activity .
The result is two playbooks : one for incident response and one for vulnerability response .
Based on National Institute of Standards and Technology