Politics, bad luck and lack of maturity have hampered DHS

As the lead agency for securing dot-gov resources, the Homeland Security Department has a mandate to stop malware from getting into government networks and keep bad things from happening, a job it has not yet sorted out how to do, said Greg Garcia, former DHS cybersecurity chief. A key element of this task will be the third phase of the Einstein network monitoring system, an intrusion prevention system that faces multiple challenges.

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