Prepare California

The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) provided funding focused on building community resilience amongst vulnerable individuals living in the areas of the state most susceptible to natural disasters. The Prepare California Initiative made efforts to reduce long-term risks from natural disasters, such as flooding, earthquakes, wildfires, landslides, extreme heat, and drought by investing in local capacity building and mitigation projects designed to protect communities.

Prepare California leveraged funds approved in Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2021-22 State Budget. It was designed to provide access to federal match funds for community mitigation projects that vulnerable communities would otherwise be unable to acquire. This program was focused on communities that are the most socially vulnerable and at the highest risk for future natural hazard events. The state identified communities by prioritizing California census tracts according to their estimated hazard exposures and social vulnerability.

Mission

The California Cybersecurity Integration Center’s (Cal-CSIC) mission is to reduce the number of cyber threats and attacks in California. The Cal-CSIC’s focus is to respond to cyber threats and attacks that could damage the economy, its critical infrastructure, or computer networks in the state.

The Cal-CSIC is the hub of state government’s cybersecurity events. The Cal-CSIC will coordinate information sharing at all levels of government agencies, utilities and other service providers, academic institutions, and nongovernmental organizations.

The Cal-CSIC will publish a statewide cybersecurity strategy. The strategy will take recommendations from the California Task Force on Cybersecurity and follow state and federal requirements. The cybersecurity strategy will improve how cyber threats are found, understood, and shared. The strategy will strengthen cyber emergency preparedness and response, standardize data protection measures, enhance digital forensics, and increase cyber investigative capabilities, supply lessons learned to California’s workforce of cybersecurity professionals, and expand cybersecurity awareness.

The Cal-CSIC will supply a Cyber Incident Response Team to serve as California’s primary unit to lead cyber threat detection, reporting, and response to public and private entities across the state.

The Incident Response Team will aid law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction for cyber-related criminal investigations and work with agencies responsible for advancing information security within state government.

Cal-CSIC information sharing will protect the privacy and civil liberties of individuals and preserve business confidentiality. Cal-CSIC will publish Cyber Threat Alerts and Advisories that will supply cybersecurity threat information between Federal, State, Local, and Tribal government entities. Advisories and Alerts are shared with private sector partners.

Cal-CSIC Analysts will collect and analyze phishing emails to document relevant information about the attacker and the Indicators of Compromise (IOC). These IOCs are added to the California Automated Indicator Exchange and is accessible to all partner entities.