CISA wants more international involvement in cyber vulnerability catalog, official says

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency wants to involve more international partners in overwatching a long-standing cyber vulnerability cataloging project, which narrowly avoided vast defunding earlier this year, a top official said Wednesday.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Program faced a near complete lapse in government funding in April when MITRE, the research giant that supports much of the program’s functions, warned of an imminent end to federal backing for the cornerstone cybersecurity project. The lapse was reversed within hours after outcry from the cybersecurity community.

The European Union’s cybersecurity agency, dubbed ENISA, for instance, is one desired organization to involve in the program, said Nick Andersen, the agency’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity.

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