Assistance program
State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Security Operations Center/Information Sharing and Analysis Center
$178.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2024
- Agency
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, HOMELAND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 97.123
- What it does
- The mission of CISA is to lead the national effort to understand and manage cyber and physical risk to our critical infrastructure. In carrying out this mission, Section 2209 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 assigns the CISA Director the responsibilities to, among other things, provide operational technical assistance, risk management support, and incident response capabilities to non-federal entities with respect to cyber threat indicators, defensive measures, cybersecurity risks, and incidents; provide information and recommendations on security and resilience measures to non-federal entities; and, through an entity that has entered an agreement with CISA, collaborate with state and local governments on cybersecurity risks and incidents. Section 102 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 authorizes the Secretary to make cooperative agreements in carrying out these responsibilities. Pursuant to these authorities, CISA carries out the SLTT SOC | ISAC Program to provide cybersecurity services to SLTT governments and their election infrastructure to assist them in improving their overall cybersecurity resilience and readiness. Under the SLTT SOC | ISAC Program, CISA provides financial assistance through a cooperative agreement to for-profit and/or non-profit organizations to operate a security operations center | information sharing and analysis center to collaborate with SLTT governments and their election infrastructure on cybersecurity threats and incidents with the goal of strengthening the SLTT governments’ cybersecurity readiness and resilience. The objectives of financial assistance under the SLTT SOC | ISAC Program are to: (1) build and improve the capacity for cyber threat information sharing among SLTTs and their elections infrastructure and the federal government; (2) support SLTTs and their elections infrastructure to build and improved the capability to respond to that cyber threat information; and (3) provide no-cost cyber managed services to SLTTs and their elections infrastructure. The SLTT SOC | ISAC Program supports Goal 3: Secure Cyberspace and Critical Infrastructure under the 2020-2024 Department of Homeland Security Strategic Plan and Goal 1 – Cyber Defense, Goal 2 – Risk Reduction and Resilience, and Goal 3 – Operational Collaboration of the CISA Strategic Plan 2023-2025.