New Federal Government Cybersecurity Incident and Vulnerability Response Playbooks

The White House, via Executive Order (EO) 14028:  Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, tasked CISA as the operational lead for federal cybersecurity to “develop a standard set of operational procedures (i.e., playbook) to be used in planning and conducting cybersecurity vulnerability and incident response activity” for federal civilian agency information systems. In response, today, CISA published the Federal Government Cybersecurity Incident and Vulnerability Response Playbooks. The playbooks provide federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agencies with operational procedures for planning and conducting cybersecurity incident and vulnerability response activities. They also provide illustrated decision trees and detail each step for both incident and vulnerability response.