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Mayorkas Plans Cyber Security Sprints To Tackle Pressing Challenges, Including Ransomware

Mayorkas Plans Cyber Security Sprints To Tackle Pressing Challenges, Including Ransomware
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Photo: DHS.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday put forth a general vision for how his department will lead federal civilian government cyber security efforts, which will include a series of upcoming “sprints” focused on key challenges such as ransomware, threats to industrial control systems and building the cyber security workforce. Mayorkas highlighted disruptive and costly ransomware attacks on cities, schools, companies, hospitals and healthcare facilities, saying that combating threats from the malware that takes data and computer systems hostage will…

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