The executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity tasked CISA with developing playbooks for federal civilian agencies to help them plan and conduct vulnerability and incident response. While the playbooks have been created for federal civilian agencies and their contractors, CISA says the information could also be useful to critical infrastructure organizations and private sector companies.

The new playbooks are designed to provide agencies with a standard set of procedures for identifying, coordinating, remediating, recovering and tracking mitigations from incidents and vulnerabilities affecting their systems, data and networks.