The Department of Homeland Security is embarking on an “aggressive” timetable to secure civilian networks in response to the cyber attack on the Office of Personnel Management.
“As the OPM breach painfully demonstrated, our cybersecurity efforts are not where they need to be,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Nov. 18.
Johnson did not provide any further details on the timetable during his speech at the Federal Times CyberCon event in Arlington, Virginia, however he did outline a number of initiatives DHS is working on to increase government cybersecurity.
As Federal News Radio reported earlier this month, DHS’ automated, near real time information sharing system is up and running as of Oct. 31. For the full article click here
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