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DHS Still Pushing For Cyber Protection Office To Improve Information Sharing

DHS Still Pushing For Cyber Protection Office To Improve Information Sharing
Jeanette Manfra, Assistant Director for Cybersecurity with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: Department of Homeland Security

In the wake of the recent massive Equifax [EFX] data breach, the Department of Homeland Security hopes to establish a new cyber security and infrastructure protection office to improve information sharing practices with industry.DHS plans on working with the House Homeland Security Committee to move forward legislation intended to bring together existing authorities, held mostly in the Department’s National Protection and Programs Directorate, under a single agency to deal with cyber risks to critical infrastructure and services.The committee approved the Cybersecurity…

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