DHS Cyber Division Taking Shape, Despite Concerns About Waning InfluenceComputerWorld
The DHS National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) is responsible for the response system, risk management program, and requirements for cyber-security in the U.S. The division is home to US-CERT operations and the National Cyber Alert System.[54][55] The DHS Science and Technology Directorate h...
The worm attacked four systems, none of which were in the U.S. However, its presence is enough to put the DHS on alert for more direct attacks on critical systems. The specialized control-system teams -- which fall under the purview of the National Cybersecurity Division (NCSD), part of...
Cybersecurity continues to be a primary area of concern for many statewide and local election officials and federal cybersecurity authorities. At a recent gathering of the National Association of Secretaries of State, Cynthia Kaiser, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division,said thatwhi...
As it relates to the US Government’s cloud strategy, DHS includes the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD). NCSD is responsible for the response system, risk management program, and U.S. cybersecurity requirements. NCSD includes US-CERT operations and the National Cyber Alert S...
Bryan Vorndran, assistant director, cyber division, FBI; Kemba Walden, assistant general counsel, digital crimes unit, Microsoft; Wendi Whitmore, senior vice president, Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks.Cybersecurity Executive OrderBiden's cybersecurity executive order spurred a governmentwide effort to insti...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to show the bottom line in 2006. Andy Purdy, acting director of the DHS' National Cyber Security Division, told legislators that in 2006 the department is going to present the business case for investing in the security of supervisory control ...
of an electoral contest will just be one criteria Homeland Security uses as it decides where to embed federal cyber technicians on Election Day and it will not be a “controlling factor,” said Krebs, who is undersecretary of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity and infrastructure security division...
DHS officials from former secretary Jeh Johnson to acting Director of Cyber Division Samuel Liles may be adamant that machines were not affected, but the agency has not in fact opened up a single voting machine since November to check.
The emergency directive comes after last week, the DHS issued an alert about ongoing DNS hijacking attacks through its US-CERT division. The DHS US-CERT alert was based on a report published last week by US cyber-security firm FireEye. The now infamous report detailed a coordinated hacking cam...