CISA Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals
CISA publishes a prioritized set of cybersecurity practices intended to reduce common and consequential risks across critical-infrastructure sectors.
What the authority record establishes
CISA publishes a prioritized set of cybersecurity practices intended to reduce common and consequential risks across critical-infrastructure sectors.
Voluntary guidance by itself
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
The CPGs give buyers a risk-reduction lens for access, segmentation, backups, inventory, monitoring, incident response, and supplier decisions.
Affected operating stages
- Govern
- Identify
- Protect
- Detect
- Respond
- Recover
Capabilities to examine
Passive OT Asset Discovery And Inventory
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for passive OT asset discovery and inventory.
Asset Criticality And Operational Context
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for asset criticality and operational context.
Secure Remote Access And Vendor Session Control
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for secure remote access and vendor session control.
Privileged Access, Credential, And Identity Governance
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for privileged access, credential, and identity governance.
Endpoint Allowlisting And Malware Prevention
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for endpoint allowlisting and malware prevention.
Compliance Mapping And Control Evidence
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for compliance mapping and control evidence.
Incident Response And Recovery Support
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for incident response and recovery support.
Offline And Air-Gapped Environment Support
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for offline and air-gapped environment support.
Device And Product Software-Supply-Chain Risk
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for device and product software-supply-chain risk.
Affected buyer audiences
- critical-infrastructure owners
- executives
- security leaders
- small and midsize operators
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
A product mapping to CPGs is not evidence that the organization has implemented or achieved the outcome.