http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/homeland-security-cybersecurity-99347.html
By Tony Romm
Politico.com
11/5/13
The Department of Homeland Security has struggled to respond to
cybersecurity threats and disseminate information about them because of
lingering technical, funding and staffing woes, according to the agency’s
inspector general.
As hackers increasingly take aim at U.S. banks and other top targets, DHS
still lacks some tools to track the attacks, desperately needs additional
analysts to interpret and share its information in real time and lags in
its efforts to train its existing cybersecurity workforce, the watchdog
found in a report released Monday.
The inspector general’s audit — conducted between January and May — comes
at a time of total flux for DHS, which currently lacks a leader. President
Barack Obama has nominated Jeh Johnson for the post; he’s yet to have a
confirmation hearing.
In the meantime, though, DHS is center stage in the Obama administration’s
ongoing campaign to raise the country’s digital defenses. An executive
order signed by the president in February tasks the agency with standing
up a new system to share threat data with industry while encouraging those
businesses to improve their cybersecurity practices. That itself
represents a daunting undertaking — and it’s one DHS faces as it also
confronts lingering structural issues in its existing cybersecurity
programs.
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