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Obama Lays Out Policy For Federal Response To Major Cyber Incidents

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 26th, 2016

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Obama Lays Out Policy For Federal Response To Major Cyber Incidents

President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. White House photo by Pete Souza

President Barack Obama on Tuesday issued a new policy directive that specifies how the federal government will respond to significant cyber security incidents against government and private networks with differing roles for the Departments of Justice (DoJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) based on the type of response.Presidential Policy Directive (PPD)-41 builds on lessons learned from a number of cyber security incidents, in particular attacks against a United States division of…

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