WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) announced a collective effort to help all levels of government defend themselves against cyber-attacks. He is introducing the Guaranteeing Universal Access to Cybersecurity Act, legislation that would fund the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), a decades-old program that provided free cybersecurity resources and monitoring to 19,000 state, local, territorial, Tribal organizations and communities. Sen. Warner sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin urging DHS to prioritize the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and to fund MS-ISAC, and a letter every governor in the country, explaining the risk facing critical infrastructure, the hazards caused by the Trump administration’s politically-motivated sabotage of CISA, and advocates for steps the governors can take to protect our national security, economy, and public health. Last year, then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem terminated funding for MS-ISAC and banned federal grant funding from being used by states, localities, Tribes, and territories (SLTT) and other organizations for membership in the MS-ISAC. Many SLTT and organizations have been forced to wait to fund these critical memberships, creating a dangerous gap in protecting their critical infrastructure. The Guaranteeing Universal Access to Cybersecurity Act would: - Direct the Director of CISA to enter into an agreement with the group that runs MS-ISAC, the Center for Internet Security, to provide no-cost cybersecurity services, cyber threat intelligence collection and dissemination, and technical assistance to SLTT. - Direct the Director to conduct additional outreach to restore MS-ISAC membership to those lost during the defunding and expand access to SLTT entities not previously members of MS-ISAC, serve critical infrastructure sectors, maintain data sharing with the FBI to enhance the national cyber threat intelligence ecosystem. - Direct CISA to report to Congress on the number of re-enrolled and new members of