DHS receives duties to produce national risk management plan under critical infrastructure memo

The Department of Homeland Security will take a central role in President Biden's update to a decade-old policy directive outlining the government's new approach to addressing critical infrastructure resilience, including the development of a nationwide plan for risk management informed by work at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and sector-specific agencies.

“The Secretary of Homeland Security shall develop and submit to the President on a recurring basis every 2 years a National Infrastructure Risk Management Plan (National Plan), which shall...