CISA Announces NSTAC Meeting – 11-2-21

Today, CISA published a meeting notice in the Federal Register (86 FR 57437-57438) for the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) meeting on November 2^nd, 2021. While the Committee will be meeting in person in Washington, DC, members of the public wanting to participate in the meeting will join the meeting via teleconference.

According to the Notice, the following items will be on the public agenda for the meeting:

• A keynote address on fortifying the Nation's cybersecurity posture,

• An update on Administration actions to NSTAC and joint national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications,

• A deliberation and vote on the NSTAC Report to the President on Software Assurance in the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain, and

• A status update from the NSTAC Zero-Trust and Trusted Identity Management Subcommittee.

After the above agenda items are completed, the Committee will meet in private to receive a classified intelligence briefing concerning threats to NS/EP communications.

Non-Committee personnel wishing to join the teleconference need to contact NSTAC by email (NSTAC@cisa.dhs.gov) before October 26^th. Public comments on the topics listed above can be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket #CISA-2021-0016). Comments should be submitted by October 18^th. More information on the meeting will be available on the NSTAC web site.