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- Operational collaboration is a cyber resilience framework that leverages public-private partnerships to reduce the risk of cyber threats and the impact of cyberattacks on United States cyberspace. This operational collaboration framework for cyber is similar to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s National Preparedness System which is used to coordinate responses to natural disasters, terrorism, chemical and biological events in the physical world. Operational collaboration is one of the six pillars of recommendations put forward by the United States Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) for a strategy of layered cyber deterrence. The CSC was established in the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 to "develop a consensus on a strategic approach to defending the United States in cyberspace against cyber attacks of significant consequences." Significant work on the development of an Operational Collaboration Framework has also been done by the Aspen Cybersecurity Group, a cross-sector public-private forum composed of government officials, industry-leading experts, and academic and civil leaders organized by the Aspen Institute. In the US, cyber defense under President Biden has increasingly taken an operational collaboration approach, following a number of large-scale cyberattacks on US federal agencies and businesses including Solar Winds and the Microsoft Exchange hacks. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly, National Cyber Director Chris Inglis and other officials met with executives from 13 companies, including Google, networking vendor Juniper Networks and security firm Mandiant. Mayorkas stated at that time: "This is about taking a spirit of partnership and moving into actual operational collaboration." Recent operational collaboration initiatives under the Biden administration include CISA's new Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, a forum for cooperative cyber defense planning with companies at the heart of operating and securing the internet's infrastructure. Also, the National Security Agency's new Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, a new platform stood up in the summer of 2021 for public-private cyber threat intelligence sharing on adversaries targeting the National Security System (NSS), Department of Defense (DoD) and Defense Industrial Base (DIB). (en)
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