
The cyber security system maintained and operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for protecting federal computer networks is limited in meeting its objectives, a government auditing agency says.The audit report says that although the cyber security system’s “ability to detect and prevent intrusions, analyze network data, and share information is useful, its capabilities are limited.”The National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS), which is better known as EINSTEIN, was developed and deployed to provide intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, analytics, and…