Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the release of the Defense Department’s new cybersecurity strategy on April 23. The new guidance builds on DoD’s original strategy...
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RAND report boasts lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy
Last year, the RAND Corporation published a report examining the multi-agency response following Hurricane Sandy in 2012...
Chairman calls for information sharing legislation
In an interview earlier this week, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey spoke about U.S. vulnerabilities to cyber attacks. The Chairman specifically addressed threats to civilian and private infrastructure...
Interagency partnerships crucial to safeguarding infrastructure
At a recent cyber symposium, Navy Adm. Michael S. Rogers stressed the importance of building partnerships among the federal government, the private sector, and academia for the defense of critical infrastructure...
Cybersecurity framework to protect U.S. critical infrastructure
On February 12, NIST released the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The framework was developed by hundreds of companies, several federal agencies, and many international contributors as a how-to cybersecurity guide...
New directive addresses critical infrastructure security
In February 2013, the White House released the Presidential Policy Directive on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience, which promotes unity of effort to strengthen and maintain secure and resilient critical infrastructure, and tasks government entities with securing critical infrastructure...
DHS to defend against cyber attacks
According to a department official, the Department of Homeland Security is preparing for its growing role in protecting U.S. critical infrastructure from catastrophic cyber attacks...
