Biden solidifies CISA’s role as national coordinator for critical infrastructure through updated national security memorandum

The Biden administration has unveiled its plans for revamping how the government will boost the resilience and security of U.S. critical infrastructure through a new national security memorandum that affirms CISA’s role as the national coordinator, improves information sharing and codifies the agency’s work on identifying “systemically important entities.”

The NSM, set to be signed today by President Biden, will replace the structure established in 2013 by former President Obama through Presidential Policy Directive 21. CISA was created by...