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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) kicks off the third annual Emergency Communications Month to honor the nation’s emergency responders and communicators, emphasizing the importance of emergency communications and the need to work together in building resilient critical infrastructure.  This year, CISA is focusing on how the nation can be “Resilient Together,” highlighting the importance of secure, interoperable emergency communications and how the agency supports this effort in collaboration with its partners across the emergency communications ecosystem. Emergency communications is a complex ecosystem with multiple stakeholders and moving pieces. It is more resilient and secure through strong partnerships and collaboration between emergency responders, government, information technology and communications providers, non-governmental organizations, and even private citizens. All through April, CISA invites the nation to celebrate the people who operate the systems we rely on and learn more about the vital role of emergency communications. 

CISA encourages critical infrastructure organizations, state, local, tribal, and territorial government, and others to significantly bolster communications resiliency and emergency preparedness by enrolling in free priority telecommunications services. These services, which include the Government Emergency Telecommunications Service and Wireless Priority Service, enable essential personnel to communicate when networks are degraded or congested due to weather events, mass gatherings, cyber incidents, or events stemming from human error. 

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