Bob Kolasky serves as director of strategy and policy for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection. He leads initiatives and policy activities to help integrate cyber and physical risk management efforts with critical infrastructure owners and operators, and to improve infrastructure resilience in the face of terrorism, climate change and other risks.
Kolasky’s career focus has been on analyzing issues related to homeland security strategy, planning and policy. Kolasky joined the federal government following his graduation from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2002. Kolasky provided written responses to questions about the new National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) and other important aspects of critical infrastructure protection including cybersecurity and climate change.
- In response to PPD-21, the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed a voluntary framework for reducing cyber risks. The Cybersecurity Framework consists of standards, guidelines and best practices for promoting critical infrastructure protection and assisting owners and operators in managing cyber-related risks.
To support adoption of the framework, DHS has established the C3 Voluntary Program. The program emphasizes three Cs:
- Converging critical infrastructure community resources to support cybersecurity risk management and resilience through use of the framework;
- Connecting critical infrastructure stakeholders to the national resilience effort through cybersecurity resilience advocacy, engagement and awareness; and
- Coordinating critical infrastructure cross-sector efforts to maximize national cybersecurity resilience.
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