Security and Critical Infrastructure Resilience, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has called on all Americans to Resolve to be Resilient.

Critical infrastructures, such as transportation networks, telecommunications systems and chemical facilities, face a wide variety of risks. We must do the work now to anticipate and prepare for a disruption. This includes conducting exercises with a deliberate focus on continuity and recovery, improving the ability to operate in a degraded state, and significantly reducing downtime when an incident occurs.

Each year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) leads the national recognition of Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month (CISR) in November. This annual effort focuses on educating and engaging all levels of government, infrastructure owners and operators, and the American public about the vital role critical infrastructure plays in the nation's well-being and why it is important to strengthen critical infrastructure security and resilience.

Weather conditions are becoming more extreme, physical and cyber attacks are a persistent threat, and technology is advancing in ways that will change our future very quickly. We must prepare by accepting that it is our responsibility to strengthen critical infrastructures and protect the vital services they provide. We can do this by embracing resilience and incorporating it into our preparedness planning, and then exercising those plans. The nation's security depends on the ability of critical infrastructures to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and to withstand and recover quickly from disruptions.

Learn more about how to #BeResilient: http://www.cisa.gov/CISR