Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection and Awareness

Overview
The National Cybersecurity Protection System's Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection and Awareness (CICPA) branch provides federal government assistance in cyber protection to the nation's CI/KR. CICPA also evaluates and assesses CI/KR capabilities by launching cyber exercises to test both individual sector vulnerabilities and response to the overall federal and partner responses to larger scale incidents. CICPA works closely with US-CERT in situations where an event or identified risk could have an impact on the critical infrastructure and will leverage NCPS information sharing capabilities to extend its cyber expertise to sector specific working groups and Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs).

Source

 * Privacy Impact Assessment for the National Cybersecurity Protection System, at 4.