
A data breach that was disclosed last summer by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) due to a successful cyber hack galvanized the federal government in a number of ways to improve cyber security, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said this week.Beyond the initial “cyber sprint” to improve the cyber health of federal networks immediately following the OPM disclosure and congressional approval last December of a cyber security information sharing bill, the hack also began to break stovepipes…