Cybersecurity Advisory Committee Meeting Notice – 3-31-22

Yesterday CISA published a Federal Advisory Committee meeting notice in the Federal Register (87 FR 14027) for a meeting of the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee. The meeting will be held via a public conference call on March 31^st, 2022, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT. This will be the second meeting the CISA CAC; the first was held on December 10^th, 2021.

The meeting agenda includes reports from the six sub-committees:

• Transforming the Cyber Workforce Subcommittee,

• Turning the Corner on Cyber Hygiene Subcommittee,

• Igniting the Hacker Community Subcommittee,

• Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Misinformation and Disinformation Subcommittee,

• Building Resilience and Reducing Systemic Risk to Critical Infrastructure Subcommittee, and

• Strategic Communications Subcommittee

Documents to be considered at the meeting will be available on the Committee web site by March 16^th, 2022. Public comments may be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket #CISA-2021-0022) by March 29^th, 2022. Personnel wishing to participate in the teleconference should contact CISA_CybersecurityAdvisoryCommittee@cisa.dhs.gov by the same date.

CISA Establishes Cybersecurity Advisory Committee

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a notice in the Federal Register (86 FR 61284-61285) announcing that it had established the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee as required by 6 USC 665e. The Committee was officially established on June 25^th, 2021, but the Committee web site shows that no one has yet been appointed to the Committee.

CISA was supposed {§665e(c)(1)(A)} to have appointed up to 35 members to the Committee by June 1^st, 2021.