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Congress Approves Changing DHS Directorate Into Cyber Security Agency

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

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Congress Approves Changing DHS Directorate Into Cyber Security Agency

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen

The House on Tuesday evening unanimously approved a bill to change the Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a name change several years in the making that recognizes the mission and operational role the directorate has in helping to safeguard the nation’s critical infrastructures and networks from cyber and physical threats.The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act (H.R. 3359) passed the Senate in October and now awaits the…

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