How to Follow CISA News and Updates

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You can follow CISA news and updates directly on cisa.gov through its News Updates and Latest Operational Information sections, and you can receive updates by subscribing to CISA's email updates or its RSS feed. These options are free to access and require no special eligibility; the main choice is whether you prefer to check the site yourself or have updates delivered to you.

What CISA Publishes on Its Site

CISA's homepage organizes current material into a few areas that are useful for ongoing monitoring:

  • News Updates — press releases and announcements, listed with dates and types. Examples from the site include a joint advisory on threat actors using automated and hands-on hacking tools, a press release on Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and a whitepaper on CVE Program quality.
  • Latest Operational Information — featured guidance and products, such as joint guidance on incident readiness and response for super intelligence training and evaluation, the 2026 Election Infrastructure Security Plan, and a fact sheet for critical infrastructure organizations working with third-party ICS integrators.
  • Additional CISA Resources — links to further CISA material beyond the homepage highlights.

Each featured item typically includes a short summary and a link to the full guidance, advisory, fact sheet, or paper.

Receiving Updates Instead of Checking the Site

If you want CISA updates pushed to you, the site offers two delivery channels:

Option What it does Where to find it
Email subscription Sends CISA updates to your inbox "Subscribe" link on the contact/subscribe page
RSS Lets you follow updates in an RSS reader "RSS" link on the subscribe page

Both are presented as subscription options on cisa.gov. The site does not state pricing or login requirements for these channels, so confirm any conditions when you sign up.

A Practical Way to Stay Current

  1. Decide your monitoring rhythm. If you need to react to advisories quickly — for example, if you manage critical infrastructure or security operations — use the email subscription or RSS feed so new items reach you.
  2. Check the News Updates list for dated releases. This is where press releases and joint advisories appear, each with a date and a link to the full document.
  3. Review Latest Operational Information for guidance products. These are the practical documents — guidance, plans, and fact sheets — rather than announcements.
  4. Open the linked guidance itself. Homepage summaries are short; the linked advisory or fact sheet contains the tactics, techniques, procedures, indicators of compromise, and mitigations.

A common pitfall is relying only on headlines: the homepage excerpt for an advisory may name a threat category without the technical detail you need, so follow the "Read the Advisory" or equivalent link before acting.

Related Questions

  • What resources and guidance does CISA publish?
  • What is CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency)?