From: FCW
By Derek B. Johnson
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The document, which will guide DHS policy for the next five years, articulates the department’s cybersecurity role as almost entirely defensive in nature. It lays out five “pillars” of managing cybersecurity risk: understanding the evolving nature of threats from state and non-state actors, protecting federal networks and critical infrastructure sectors, countering transnational criminal hacking groups, imposing consequences on nation states for malicious cyber activity and globally promoting best practices around cybersecurity.
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The department also must improve the way it integrates information from existing capabilities. Two of the department’s crown jewel programs, the Automated Indicator Sharing program and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation, are designed to leverage such information from the private sector and federal agencies respectively, but both programs have been plagued by delays and low participation rates.
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