Seceon Offers Expertise in Developing Your Cyber Plan

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New DHS Cybersecurity Grant Program Seceon
Offers Expertise in Developing Your Cyber Plan
As many of you may now know, the Department of
Homeland Security is making a significant
investment to address cybersecurity risks and
threats to information systems owned or operated
by, or on behalf of, state, local and
territorial governments. Last week, the federal
government advanced further, announcing
the appropriation of 1 billion pool of grant
money for state, local and territorial
governments to defend themselves against cyber
intruders.
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Municipalities, state departments of education,
state university systems and local town-level
governments, typically lack the necessary
resources to fully combat cybercrime and are
prime targets for hackers in extortion plots to
steal money and exfiltrate data. The new
funding, is intended to assist state, local and
territorial governments to enact plans and
programs tailored to their own needs. This 1
billion will be allocated over four years, with
185 million reserved for 2022 with more
allocated during each of the next three years
during what is called the performance
period. Now, here is the key. This program helps
the eligible entities address cybersecurity
risks and threats for systems owned or operated
on behalf of state, local and territorial
governments but the apportionment of funds is
not completely up to the discretion of the
state. Each state must submit a plan for approval
by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency (most of us know them as CISA). Each
state who receives an allocation must spend 80
of it on local and rural communities and 3 more
on tribal governments.
Eligible entities can submit an application via
Grants.gov. CISA and FEMA will review each
submission, and CISA will approve final
Cybersecurity Plans and individual projects.
There is no time for states to waste.
Applicants must apply for a grant in the next 60
days, and may use the federal dollars toward
new or existing
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• cybersecurity programs. Local entities receive
  sub-awards through their states.
• Most importantly CISA has developed a series of
  overarching goals and objectives for the
  submitted cybersecurity plan based on input from
  state, local, and territorial stakeholders, and
  consideration of national priorities,
  frameworks, and the national cyber threat
  environment. The plan must include
• Implement cyber governance and planning
• Assess and evaluate systems and capabilities
• Mitigate prioritized issues an
• Build a cybersecurity workforce.
• It is not possible to meet these overarching
  goals without defining a comprehensive and proact
  ive cybersecurity approach that limits
  volatility, uncertainty, complexity and
  ambiguity, all enemies of a successful cybersecur
  ity program. That is why comprehensive
  cybersecurity for the digital economy
  like Seceon Open Threat Management is very
  appropriate towards meeting these goals and
  objectives, providing demonstrable and dramatic
  improvements while offering a significant
  culture shift in the prioritization of
  appropriate risk management.
• For more information on formulating your plan and
  providing you with the content you need to
  submit regarding your grant request, please
  contact me at joseph.vigorito_at_seceon.com. We will
  save you time, expense, and complexity,
  providing you the best opportunity to secure
  your funds for the 2022 appropriation and
  subsequent ones in future years.

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