The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently unveiled its inaugural International Strategic Plan, covering the 2025-2026 period. The plan is designed to complement CISA’s first comprehensive strategic plan, which was released two years ago.

“In recognition of the reality that today’s threats do not respect borders, CISA developed this CISA International Strategic Plan as a complementary guide for CISA’s international activities and outcomes. This CISA International Strategic Plan acknowledges that the risks we face are complex and geographically dispersed, and that we cannot achieve our objectives in a vacuum,” CISA said.

The CISA International Strategic Plan aims to enhance the resilience of foreign infrastructure vital to U.S. interests, strengthen integrated cyber defense, and improve coordination across agencies in managing international cybersecurity efforts.

“Our aim is to shape the international environment to reduce risk to critical dependencies and set conditions for success in cooperation, competition, and conflict. The CISA International Strategic Plan lays out three goals CISA must achieve to address the ever-changing and dynamic challenges facing America and our international partners,” the agency added.

In September, CISA issued fresh guidance aimed at helping federal civilian agencies mitigate their cybersecurity risks.

The guidelines encourage agencies to enhance their cyber capabilities by concentrating on asset management, vulnerability management, defensible architecture, supply chain resilience, and incident detection and response.

CISA created this plan in collaboration with FCEB agencies to establish standard, essential components of enterprise operational cybersecurity and to align collective defense capabilities across the federal landscape.