
Increasing cyber security threats to the national government and evolving risk to critical infrastructure have driven the Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) to increase its operational focus, which will be enhanced by a proposed reorganization of the division, a senior department official told a House panel on Wednesday.These “changes we believe are necessary to keep pace with the dynamic and evolving risks that our partners in government and the private sector face each and every…