Clayton Romans, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency‘s associate director for the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, marked the anniversary of JCDC in a recent article where he touted the organization’s accomplishments through its three-year existence.
Established by CISA in 2021, JCDC is a public-private cybersecurity collaborative that aims to work with various stakeholders, including those from industry, to share cyber defense-related insights, implement defensive cyber operations, bolster those operations by supporting exercises and design and implement cyber defense plans.
The collaborative’s initial partners included Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Verizon but their ranks have since expanded to over 340, Romans said in an article posted Wednesday on the CISA website. Those partners have contributed actionable insights and expertise to inform most of the cybersecurity advisories, guides, white papers and fact sheets issued by CISA in the past three years.
JCDC has also helped coordinate cyber defense plans for three ongoing geopolitical conflicts and collaboratively executed multiple other cyber defense plans like the Pipelines Cyber Defense Planning Effort and the Remote Monitoring and Management Cyber Defense Plan.
JCDC’s other cybersecurity contributions include a rapid response to the Log4Shell vulnerability, efforts against the Daxin malware and, more recently, a tabletop exercise that sought to develop responses to security incidents involving artificial intelligence.
Romans went on to express gratefulness for the contributions of all the parts of JCDC and said he was excited about JCDC’s potential to promote collective cyber defense.
“We’re not homogenous, and it’s not always harmonious, but it is the collective willingness to unify and operate with clarity of purpose that empowers JCDC to tackle today’s sophisticated cyber threat challenges,” Romans said.