https://www.fifthdomain.com/civilian/dhs/2019/09/25/but-whos-in-charge-is-the-question-for-feds-in-cybersecurity/
By Andrew Eversden
Fifth Domain
September 25, 2019
In an event that brought two Cabinet secretaries and around 50 top federal and
state officials together for three days of discussion on cybersecurity and
critical infrastructure, one question remained: Who has the lead on information
security issues in the United States?
It was an issue pondered aloud by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., the chairman of
the Senate’s Homeland Security committee. Johnson said Sept. 19 he had recently
sat through a classified 5G briefing with cabinet officials and had a similar
inquiry then.
“The No. 1 question I [had] is ‘who’s in charge? Who is actually doing the
problem definition when it comes to our challenge with 5G?,’” Johnson said at
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s second annual national
cybersecurity summit at National Harbor. “And nobody would really answer the
question.”
“This is constant. This is common across the federal government,” Johnson
added.
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