In a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, Alejandro Mayorkas, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), laid out his vision for the nation’s cybersecurity and promised to make it a priority if confirmed. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Insider Threat Program (ITP) faces vulnerabilities because of DHS’s incomplete documentation and privacy monitoring procedures for the program, according to a May 24 Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released a series of exchanges from December 2016 to February 2017 between the department and members of Congress revealing Sen. Brian Kemp’s, R-Ga., accusation that DHS conducted unauthorized scans of Georgia’s Secretary of State networks and DHS’s denial of the accusation. […]
Several former senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials today issued dire warnings that the ongoing partial Federal government shutdown–which has hit DHS particularly hard–is creating both immediate and lasting security problems for the U.S. […]
The state of Georgia said it found evidence of an attempted hack on its voter registration database by a Department of Homeland Security device. […]
All 50 states have reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for cybersecurity services, a DHS official said on the day before Election Day. […]
The Department of Homeland Security identified Mirai as one type of malware used in a recent cyberattack that brought down major websites, according to a statement from DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. […]
A bipartisan letter sent by members of Congress to the National Board of State Election Directors encourages states to turn to the private sector and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as resources for protecting their elections infrastructure. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s long-standing plans to reorganize the National Protection Programs Directorate to better deal with the growing threat of cyberattacks on national critical infrastructure may have received the boost it needed this week to obtain congressional approval. […]
The White House on Tuesday took a step forward in coordinating Federal response to cyber incidents in the U.S. with the announcement of a Presidential Policy Directive on United States Cyber Incident Coordination. […]
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson last week swore in John F. Kelly and Karen P. Tandy to the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). […]
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told a Senate committee that the agency plans to use the final months of the Obama administration and the fiscal 2017 budget request to kick-start and expand a new operational focus on data and cybersecurity. […]