Open Innovation & Technologies of Interest
Open Innovation
As the disruption of technology prevails, CISA looks beyond what we know to discover new technology trends so that we can adapt to technological change, learn how to adopt practices to CISA’s mission, and develop better requirements to solicit to industry so that risks and rewards can be shared.
Technologies of Interest
CISA’s Technologies of Interest (TOI) include five categories and 41 subsets of technologies that continue to emerge and modernize with significant implications to CISA’s cybersecurity, infrastructure security, and emergency communication mission sets. CISA seeks to gain insight from the private industry on the TOIs to:
- Identify opportunities or threats on cyber-physical security resilience.
- Explore use cases to inform benefits and potential requirements.
- Understand successful approaches in transition and adoption.
- Inform guidance for the safe procurement, use, and management.
- Artificial Intelligence
CISA seeks to gain a deep understanding of AI technologies for the deterrence and response to cyber threats, rapid deployment of new capabilities, and capabilities to update existing models with minimal risks. Highest interest AI capabilities include:
- Adversarial AI Countermeasures
- AI for Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)
- AI-powered Cyber Defense
- AI Training & Inference Hardware Security
- AI System Assurance
- Autonomous AI Systems
- Emergency Communication Chatbots
- Intelligent Automation
- LLM Prompt Engineering
- ML Drift Detection
- Emerging Technology
CISA continuously identifies and evaluates innovative technologies, emerging trends and risks, and standards that impact cyber and infrastructure security. In doing so, pathways are created to transition strategic technology concepts into tangible mission outcomes. CISA is interested in industry advancements in the following technologies.
- Anonymous Information Sharing
- Brain-computer Interfaces
- Digital Twin
- Emerging Software Technology
- Metaverse
- Open Standard Chip Creation
- Post Quantum Cryptographic & Transition
- Privacy Enhancing & Digital Identity Tech
- Quantum Key Distribution & Cryptography
- Quantum Technologies
- Sustainable Computing
- Synthetic Biology
- Web3 & Blockchain
- Zero Trust Technology Advancements
- Data, Analytics, Storage, & Management
The acceleration and reliance on complex data and interconnective technology shapes a need for a unified data and analytics environment to correlate and assess cyber-physical security risks. To that end, CISA is interested in the next generation architectures, computation, and decision-making enablers for secure and multi-party environments.
- Applied Observability
- Big Data Technologies
- Data & Metadata Management Systems
- Data Collection & Normalization
- Distributed Data Analytics
- Spatial Data Infrastructure, Analysis, & Geoprocessing Tools
- Synthetic Data Generation Tools
- IT Security Controls
As the operational lead for federal cybersecurity, CISA is highly interested in the following to safeguard against vulnerabilities such as fileless & traditional malware.
- Cyber Deception Technologies
- Continuous Vulnerability Management
- Endpoint Detection & Response Advancements
- Network Monitoring & Defense
- Communications Technology
As the nation’s lead for public safety, national security, and emergency preparedness communications, CISA is interested in learning about technology advancements in communication security, resilience, integration, and performance.
- Land Mobile Radio Communication & Security
- SATCOM Cybersecurity
- Sixth-generation Technology
- Telecommunication Advancements
- Voice Over Internet Protocol Security & Integration
- Wireless-value Realization Techniques
Mission-Applicable Foresight Technology
Beyond CISA’s TOIs, there are incredible advancements in technological novelties that have implications to the CISA mission. If you believe your organization has an innovative capability applicable to CISA’s mission areas, we want to hear from you.