Changing DHS' Role in Cybersecurity?
Robert Jamison, under secretary of the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Homeland Security Department, told ComputerWorld:
"As we go ahead into the election, the first thing that's important is career leadership ... that we have the right people in the right jobs, and, secondly, that we don't lose the momentum of a coordinated approach."
The article also referenced a recent blog entry by Jamison, in which he wrote: “A reorganization of roles and responsibilities is the worst thing that could be done to improve our nation's security posture against very real and increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats.â€
But according to a Government Computer News article, that may not be the thinking of a commission Congress formed to look into how to best mange cybersecurity. From the article:
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