The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Monday announced a $1.2 million grant to a think tank at University of Texas at San Antonio that will launch a pilot program to help state and local governments improve the cyber defenses of their most critical systems.
Using the grant, the university’s Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security, which studies cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, will develop methods by which state, local, tribal and territorial agencies can better identify their high-value assets, which CISA identifies as information or an IT system “so critical to an organization that the loss or corruption of this information or loss of access to the system would have serious impact to the organization’s ability to perform its mission or conduct business.”
