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The Department of Homeland Security finally secured a name change for its cybersecurity-focused branch, but more importantly, and its chief has laid out a two-year roadmap to bring it up to "full operating capability."
Chris Krebs of the National Protection and Programs Directorate described the National Risk Management Center as one half of a two-pronged approach to cybersecurity.
DHS' National Risk Management Center is weighing some heavy questions as it begins to examine how adversaries could disrupt day-to-day life in the U.S.
INSA praises new plans of action from DoD and the White House that could help send a clear message to potential attackers that cyberthreats will be deterred in real-time.
Gigi Schumm welcomes Jeanette Manfra from the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications within DHS on this episode of Women of Washington.
Federal government doesn't operate local elections, but it can help locals avoid fraud and tampering.
More than 1,000 people from federal and state agencies, in addition to partners from private critical infrastructure sectors, are convening in person and in cyberspace for the exercise.
The Naval War College recently conducted a Navy-Private Sector Critical Infrastructure Wargame to test U.S. defenses against a major cyber attack.
The authors of a new report for the National Infrastructure Advisory Council say their diagnosis of the federal government's cyber problems is nothing new.
Federal News Radio has decided to remove the content of this article after recent investigative reports have called into question the credibility of the expert interviewed.
Nearly two years after Congress passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, the intelligence community says it's laid the groundwork for a public-private cyber threat hub, but it's still far from the "cyber 911" that lawmakers and agencies envisioned.
The Obama administration's top homeland security adviser said an official U.S. response may still be coming, and in the meantime, federal officials are keen to bolster public confidence in the U.S. election system,
The new DHS program helps researchers collect data sets and test scenarios for potential cyber-related infrastructure events.
The federal government has designated 15 private sector industries as being or operating critical infrastructure. Each one has a corresponding federal agency with whom that industry shares cybersecurity threat information. Trouble is, the so-called sector-specific agencies haven't done a good job in assessing whether the infrastructure operators are getting better at cyber. That's according to the Government Accountability Office. Its director of cybersecurity issues, Greg Wilshusen, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin more.