
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is one step closer to having a consolidated agency to direct cyber and critical infrastructure protection efforts under one operation after a House panel voted unanimously Wednesday to move forward with a bill to authorize and re-designate the National Protection Programs and Directorate (NPPD) as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The House Homeland Security Committee passed by voice vote the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2017, which was introduced by…