CISA Releases Secure Tomorrow Series Toolkit
 In a constantly changing and complex operating environment, perfectly accurate forecasts about the future are impossible. CISA’s Secure Tomorrow Series is a strategic foresight capability that looks at future risk drivers and trends—such as aging infrastructure, global pandemics, and emerging technologies— that could affect the nation’s critical infrastructure in the next 5 to 20 years to analyze, prioritize, and manage those drivers of risk to steer towards a preferred future.
Under this effort, the Agency released the Secure Tomorrow Series Toolkit—a diverse array of interactive and thought-provoking products (to include games, guides, and fact sheets) designed to assist critical infrastructure stakeholder’s understanding of how to use strategic foresight methods. The Toolkit focuses on three topics: trust and social cohesion, anonymity and privacy, and data storage and transmission. The Toolkit is uniquely designed to allow users to self-facilitate and conduct four different kinds of strategic foresight activities around topics that are relevant to their organization, region, or sector.
Download/share the Secure Tomorrow Series Toolkit.
To learn more, read CISA’s blog article, Using Strategic Foresight to Prepare for the Future, or visit the Secure Tomorrow Series webpage.
CISA Recognizes Emergency Communications Month in April
CISA marked the first-ever Emergency Communications Month in April, beginning an annual effort to educate and engage all levels of government, our stakeholders, and the American public about emergency communications and how it fits into CISA’s mission. CISA also celebrated National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW), held annually during the second week of April to honor telecommunications personnel for their commitment, service, and sacrifice.
The complex field of emergency communications encompasses the 911 operating system, radio communications systems, broadband and narrowband data systems, alerts and warning systems, and other forms of communication.
Through its emergency communications mission, CISA conducts extensive, nationwide outreach to support and promote the ability of emergency response providers and government officials to communicate in the event of a natural disaster, terrorist act, or other hazard. CISA also provides guidance on how facilities can establish protocols for identifying and reporting significant cyber incidents to appropriate facility personnel, local law enforcement, and the agency.
For the first Emergency Communications Month, CISA highlighted emergency communications and promoted resources available to various stakeholders. It also called attention to key partnerships with SAFECOM, the National Council of Statewide Interoperability Coordinators and other federal agencies to convey the critical role cybersecurity plays in emergency communications.
For more information about CISA Emergency Communications, please email ECD@cisa.dhs.gov.
 Quarterly ChemLock Trainings
In addition to trainings specifically requested by an organization, CISA’s ChemLock program provides the ChemLock: Introduction to Chemical Security training course quarterly on a first-come, first-serve basis.
This course introduces how to identify, assess, evaluate, and mitigate chemical security risks. This easy-to-understand overview identifies key components and best practices of chemical security awareness and planning to help kick start chemical security discussions at your facility.
The course time runs one to two hours in length and is appropriate for all personnel regardless of their level of involvement with dangerous chemicals.
For more information or to request a specific training for your facility, please visit the ChemLock Training webpage.
2021 Chemical Security Seminars
CISA hosted the 2021 Chemical Security Seminars, the signature industry event for chemical sector representatives in December. The seminars featured three days of events covering chemical and cybersecurity threats and countermeasures, and chemical security planning and preparedness.
Select presentations from the 2021 Chemical Security Seminars will be posted in the coming weeks on the Chemical Security Summit webpage.
CISA thanks those who have contributed to and participated in the ongoing, collaborative efforts to enhance our Nation’s chemical security.
CISA's Office for Bombing Prevention Releases Bomb Threat Video
In January and February 2022 alone, a total of 67 bomb threats were reported against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) nationwide. The threats serve as a stark reminder that bombs pose a serious threat to our local communities, as well as to public and private sectors across the United States.
Amid the bomb threats against HBCUs, and other threats targeting Ivy League schools, CISA’s Office for Bombing Prevention (OBP) released a video on how to respond to threats and make informed risk management decisions to protect personnel and property. The video highlights key resources, including DHS-DOJ Bomb Threat Guidance, that help site decision-makers react to a bomb threat in an orderly, controlled manner. The video links to online self-paced trainings and a range of other CISA OBP videos and products that specify different threat scenarios and best practices for responding to them.
Being better prepared to respond to these threats will go a long way toward mitigating impacts, protecting stakeholders, and creating more resilient communities. CISA OBP’s resources equip stakeholders with the tools to protect their campuses, students, and communities. See CISA OBP’s “What to Do: Bomb Threat Resources” webpage for guidance and resources, as they offer in-depth procedures for bomb threats or suspicious items to help you prepare and react appropriately during these events.
CISA Provides Active Shooter Preparedness Resources in American Sign Language
To help stakeholders build security capacity against the active shooter threat, CISA recently translated the Options for Consideration and Active Shooter Preparedness: Access & Functional Needs – What You Should Know videos into American Sign Language with closed captioning. The Options for Consideration video suggests actions to take if confronted with an active shooter scenario within the run, hide, fight approach and is also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Dari, and Pashto. The Active Shooter Preparedness video provides information to better understand the unique and complex challenges that persons with disabilities, and access and functional needs, face during an active shooter incident. For additional active shooter preparedness resources, visit cisa.gov/active-shooter-preparedness.
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