From: Politico | Morning Cybersecurity
By TIM STARKS
With help Eric Geller, Martin Matishak and Brianna Milord
SOON, VERY SOON — The Justice Department will soon release a report describing how its many agencies and components tackle cyber threats. DOJ officials delivered the report to Attorney General Jeff Sessions late last week, a department spokesman told Eric, four months after Sessions created a cyber task force to study DOJ’s role in areas like election security, botnets, encryption and data breaches. “We plan to release the report at the Aspen Security Forum later this month,” the spokesman, Ian Prior, said in an email. Prior didn’t say exactly when that would happen, but the Aspen agendashows that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is scheduled to make “an exclusive policy announcement” there on July 19.
Confirmation of the report’s completion and its impending release came hours after the DNC tried to score points against the Trump administration for missing the June 30 deadline that Sessions set for the report. “It’s clear Trump does not take the ongoing threat foreign adversaries pose to our election systems seriously,” DNC Chief Technology Officer Raffi Krikorian said in a statement. But the June 30 deadline was for DOJ to submit the report to Sessions, not for it to publish the document
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