CISA: Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Thu Mar 19 21:36:21 UTC 2020


The U.S. Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (part of the U.S. 
Department of Homeland Security) has issued new Guidance on the Essential 
Critical Infrastructure Workforce.

The memorandum is advisory, not presecriptive.  DHS is only one of several 
agencies assigned some National Essential Functions so it is not 
exhaustive list.  It looks like someone found the three-ring 
emergency plan binders. Sad its needed, but appreciative of the experts 
which helped write those planning documents over the years.


https://www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure
-workforce

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The attached list identifies workers who conduct a range of operations and 
services that are essential to continued critical infrastructure 
viability, including staffing operations centers, maintaining and 
repairing critical infrastructure, operating call centers, working 
construction, and performing management functions, among others. The 
industries they support represent, but are not necessarily limited to, 
medical and healthcare, telecommunications, information technology 
systems, defense, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, 
energy, water and wastewater, law enforcement, and public works.

We recognize that State, local, tribal, and territorial governments are 
ultimately in charge of implementing and executing response activities in 
communities under their jurisdiction, while the Federal Government is in a 
supporting role. As State and local communities consider

COVID-19-related restrictions, CISA is offering this list to assist 
prioritizing activities related to continuity of operations and incident 
response, including the appropriate movement of critical infrastructure 
workers within and between jurisdictions.

Accordingly, this list is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be 
considered to be, a federal directive or standard in and of itself.
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