The Energy Department’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response is working on its first strategic plan, to be rolled out in the near future, the office’s leader said Tuesday.
On deck: CESER Director Alex Fitzsimmons made the announcement during a panel at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security cyber summit. He said that his office, established under the first Trump administration, “has never had a strategic plan” and that this new document will clearly spell out how CESER hopes to prevent cyber and physical threats to the energy sector.
Big picture: Earlier this month, the White House released its National Cyber Strategy, which outlined the administration’s desire to use cyberattacks to strike back at adversaries, as well as plans to strengthen the cybersecurity of U.S. critical networks.
“The timing works out well that the national cyber strategy was published,” Fitzsimmons said.
