New grant opportunity on Grants.gov: State, Local, Tribal and Territorial (SLTT) Security Operations Center (SOC) Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) – Continuation and Supplement

Funding Opportunity ID: 326689 Opportunity Number: DHS-20-CISA-123-ISAC000001 Opportunity Title: State, Local, Tribal and Territorial (SLTT) Security Operations Center (SOC) Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) – Continuation and Supplement Opportunity Category: Discretionary Opportunity Category Explanation: Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement Category of Funding Activity: Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification) Category Explanation: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security CFDA Number(s): 97.123 Eligible Applicants: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Additional Information on Eligibility: Eligibility for this continuation and supplemental funding opportunity is restricted to the Center for Internet Security, DHS Award Number 19PDMSI00002-01-00 as awarded via DHS NOFO: DHS-19-CISA-123- ISAC000001. Agency Code: DHS-OPO Agency Name: Department of Homeland Security Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division Posted Date: May 01, 2020 Close Date: May 15, 2020 Last Updated Date: May 01, 2020 Award Ceiling: $23,294,000 Award Floor: $0 Estimated Total Program Funding: Expected Number of Awards: 1 Description: The purpose of this supplement and continuation is to expedite building an automated and streamlined capacity to share cyber threat intelligence bi-directionally and collaboratively amongst the SLTT (most presently with the Elections Subsector) and DHS CISA, as well as provide a mechanism for rapid adoption and methods to integrate with local activities in the SLTT enterprise/environment that improve cyber security awareness and equip stakeholders to act in response to prioritized cyber threat intelligence shared within the threat intelligence platform. Furthermore, this supplement will expand exploration of cyber managed services (i.e. National Prevention Pilot, End-Point Detection and Response Pilot, Domain Blocking and Reporting) foremost in the Elections subsector, and in so doing will impact the capabilities to create a more robust cyber defense and information sharing environment for the entire SLTT sector.DHS CISA will leverage this Cooperative Agreement award to advance SLTT cybersecurity risk management and to help build a healthy and resilient SLTT cyber ecosystem via automated collective community action. Successful execution of this agreement will focus on expanding SLTT sector interrelationships within the community using rapid rollout technology to enhance cyber threat intelligence exchange.The priority is to provide a connective platform among the SLTT cyber coordinators for collaborative threat intelligence sharing. This enhanced technical model relies upon trusted SLTT collaboration, elastic infrastructure, managed security services and robust analytic orchestration and informed risk information to give cyber coordinators decision advantage, improve situational awareness and provide enhanced cyber defense Version: 1

Published at: June 01, 2020 at 09:46AM