Strengthening Critical Infrastructure: SLTT Progress & Priorities

In every community across America, services on which small business owners and working Americans rely — from water treatment and trash pickup to business permitting and elementary schools — face unrelenting attacks to our critical infrastructure. These attacks, when successful, have significant and costly direct impacts on government services and undermine Americans’ confidence in our nation’s ability to defend itself.

U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) organizations are the defenders of much of the nation’s critical infrastructure that keeps everyday life moving forward. SLTT organizations are uniquely positioned to address local threats and collaborate with federal entities to share actionable intelligence. Their involvement is crucial in national security efforts, particularly in enhancing cybersecurity and emergency communications. Moreover, critical infrastructure owned by the private sector is almost universally dependent on the proper functioning of SLTT critical infrastructure.

Safeguarding this infrastructure is a national imperative; destruction or disruptions to it have major individual, local, and national-level impacts on national security and economic prosperity. Learn more about the cybersecurity challenges and priorities unique to state and local governments in this Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) report.