Workforce Bulletin

On October 16, 2026, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a list of 10 “Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation” (the “NIST Document” or “document”). The NIST Document is significant, as it is the first government effort to provide information to designers and deployers on mitigating risks associated with agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems. To that end, NIST’s Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), NSA’s Super Intelligence Security Center (SISC), and CISA partnered to develop best practices, described below, for incident response regarding super intelligence (SI) threats.

On July 13, 2023, the White House issued the first iteration of its National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (the “Implementation Plan”), which will be updated annually. The two overarching goals of the Implementation Plan are to address the need for more capable actors in cyberspace to bear more of the responsibility for cybersecurity and to increase incentives to make investments in long-term resilience. The Implementation Plan is structured around the five pillars laid out in the White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy earlier this year, namely: (1) defend critical infrastructure; (2) disrupt and dismantle threat actors; (3) shape market forces to drive security and resilience; (4) invest in a resilient future; and (5) forge international partnerships to pursue shared goals. The Implementation Plan identifies strategic objectives and high-impact cybersecurity initiatives under each pillar and designates the federal agency responsible for leading the initiative to meet each objective. The following summarizes some of the key initiatives included in the Implementation Plan that will directly impact critical infrastructure organizations, including healthcare, energy, manufacturing, information technology and financial services.