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CISA plays a central role in managing vulnerabilities on a large scale. It actively identifies, assesses, and communicates about security flaws that could affect critical infrastructure, including government services, operators of essential services, and large enterprises. It often works in collaboration with MITRE, publishers, security researchers, and other international agencies.

Among its responsibilities, it publishes security bulletins, coordinates responses to certain major vulnerabilities, and sometimes imposes, through federal directives (BODs), mandatory remediation deadlines for certain flaws in public entities. Its goal is to reduce the time between the discovery of a vulnerability and its effective remediation in the field.