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Cyber

CISA Chief Wants To Change Model For Protecting Federal Civilian Agency Networks

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

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CISA Chief Wants To Change Model For Protecting Federal Civilian Agency Networks

Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS. Photo: DHS

Federal civilian government agencies need new models for securing their networks instead of having the responsibility for their own security as they do now and the Department of Homeland Security is already working with federal and congressional policy makers to begin to consider new security architectures, Chris Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said on Thursday. Security across the 99 federal civilian agencies isn’t well coordinated and isn’t “tenable” in the long-term, Krebs said at…

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