CYBERSecurity Mission Area

Leadership Team

The ATARC Cybersecurity Leadership provides direction, guidance, and support to the various groups of project team Leaders and members in the Cybersecurity Working Group, The Leadership team exists for the purpose of helping the project teams achieve their goals, and coordinate between cross-cutting topics.

Cybersecurity Leadership is continuously conceiving and developing new initiatives, such as the state and local cyber grant program. These initiatives are at various stages of maturity towards becoming independent Working Groups, please contact us with your specific interests. In these groups, we hope to address many further-future-looking ideas and concepts including cyber range exercises, higher education, healthcare, etc.

Zero Trust 

This group will focus on Zero Trust and how we need to be thinking differently about security, risk, & governance. The topics covered will include the convergence of government policies and moving to a continuous compliance model. Members will also discuss the Importance of AI while using unsupervised machine learning to enhance the mission of your agency or organization.

Global Quantum 

The function of this group is to assist the United States Federal Government and its Agencies, Committees, Subcommittees, Working Groups, Advisory Councils as well as United States Diplomats and other United States Foreign Service Officials in the execution of their charters as dictated by United States laws and the President’s executive orders.

Identity Management

This working group meets bi-weekly on Fridays at 10:00 AM ET

The group’s goal is to identify, understand, and provide strategic recommendations for challenges and barriers affecting the broader US Federal Community’s Identity Credential and Access Management (ICAM) deployments and offerings.  Then, in close alignment with government entities such as OMB for policy and NIST for guidance, the ATARC Identity Team aims to provide strategic recommendations to remove any identified barriers and accelerate adoption of ICAM best practices to increase efficiency and reduce cost using cutting-edge identity solutions.

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State and Local Cyber Grants

The purpose of this group is to: 

1. Establish guidelines and assistance documentation for state and local government organizations applying for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) cyber grants. 
2. Identify recommended uses of DHS and CISA cyber grant funding. 
3. Develop a biennial (every 2 years) paper for DHS and CISA identifying critical needs for state and local organizations for future cyber grant initiatives. 
4. Develop periodic, official correspondence from the Working Group to members of Congress advocating for increased cyber grant program funding outlying identified critical needs.

Supply Chain Risk Management

The Supply Chain Risk Management Working Group is composed of the Federal government, academia and industry with the purpose of working collaboratively to identify, educate, and find reasonable solutions to address the challenges associated with cybersecurity risks that threaten America’s supply chain.

Cyber Cooperative

The Cyber Cooperative Working Group will leverage, build, and unify the cyber defense capability and capacity of participating and partner organizations. It is in direct response and intended to support the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) collaborative efforts. The Cyber Cooperative Working Group will provide a process and framework to directly engage and leverage their capability, capacity, and expertise to amplify their mission, reach, and desired outcomes in order to build, maintain, and sustain a unified cyber defense.

Cybersecurity Higher Education and Workforce Development

Mission Statement: Build a collaborative framework of key stakeholders to provide strategic recommendations on enhancing national cybersecurity education and workforce development policy and practice to implement an innovative and  comprehensive national career pipeline/pathway at all levels of education/training accessible to all and clearly communicated through detailed “road maps” for career preparedness and college readiness tracks.   

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