NCCIC

Refreshing government’s approach to decreasing the cyber workforce gap

Barbara George, executive director of the Washington Cyber Roundtable, explains why DHS approach to recruit and train cyber workers should be emulated.

Commentary

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar /(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Congress stepping in after reorganizations, leadership vacuum leave HCCIC fate unclear

Agency Oversight

Official DHS photo by Barry Bahler

Secretary of Homeland Security delivers opening remarks at the DHS Active Shooter Preparedness Workshop held at the Nationals Ballpark in Washington, D.C., Nov. 9, 2016. The Washington Nationals and the National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Infrastructure Protection hosted the one-day Security Workshop to enhance awareness of, and response to, an active shooter event designed to foster communication between critical infrastructure owners and operators and local emergency response teams. Official DHS photo by Barry Bahler.

Reskilling the federal workforce easier said than done, DHS says

Workforce

Cyber experts take critical infrastructure systems by ‘storm’ this week

Cybersecurity

HHS to stand up its own version of the NCCIC for health

Technology

NCCIC uses automation technology to flip the script on hackers

DHS plays cyber defense, NSA worries about ‘milware’

DHS’ automated cyber threat sharing system is ready for business

Cybersecurity

DHS’ Johnson: We’re close to sharing cyber threat data in real time

Cybersecurity

House bill offers liability protection for information sharing

Congress

Administration’s cyber sharing proposal a ‘policy puzzle,’ not a panacea

Congress

DHS embeds industry analyst at cyber watch center

A full-time IT ISAC analyst will be embedded at DHS\’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center under the new partnership

Federal Drive

Collaboration is the real test for Cyber Storm III

A U.S.-led, global exercise in cybersecurity preparedness and response is expected to wrap up in the next 24 hours. The scenario is helping seven agencies,…

Budget

Federal experts on the trail of the Stuxnet virus

Technology

DHS\’s Sean McGurk and other cybersecurity experts are trying to protect agency networks against one of the most dangerous viruses ever developed. Stuxnet exploits a vulnerability in Siemens industrial equipment control software and hardware and may be the product of a nation bent on sabotage.