In a proactive move, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its first comprehensive plan focusing on how the agency will engage international partners to strengthen infrastructure security and resilience.
The 2025-2026 International Strategic Plan supports CISA’s first comprehensive strategic plan and aligns the agency with the National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience.
“In following this plan, CISA will improve coordination with our partners and strengthen international relationships to reduce risk to the globally interconnected and interdependent cyber and physical infrastructure that Americans rely on every day,” CISA Director Jen Easterly said.
The agency said the complex and geographically dispersed risks the country faces requires concerted effort of public and private partners around the world. The risks, the agency said, do not abide by borders and protecting and security them requires a plan to cover both cyber and physical infrastructure. The International Strategic Plan focuses on three goals to address the challenges facing the United States and its allies; bolstering the resilience of foreign infrastructure that the U.S. depends on; strengthening the country’s integrated cyber defense; and unifying the agency coordination of international activities.
“It is imperative that we expand visibility into internationally shared systemic risks,” the agency wrote. “The maturity and security practices of global owners and operators of both cyber and physical infrastructure, technology, supply chains, and systems vary widely. Sharing timely, relevant, and accurate threat information and risk reduction advice with international partners provides the foundation for a more secure cyber-physical environment for all of us.”
The agency said that through coordination with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. State Department and other interagency partners, it will assess and prioritize critical infrastructure dependencies and partner with foreign entities to advance its mission.