A task force focused on reducing cybersecurity risks in the nation’s technology and communications supply chain will meet for the first time in the next few weeks, the Homeland Security Department announced Tuesday.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced the task force’s creation during a cyber conference in New York in July during which she also announced the creation of a new Homeland Security division, the National Cyber Risk Management Center, focused on long-range cyber issues.
The task force will be chaired by private sector leaders but will be sponsored by the risk management center, according to a Homeland Security news release.
The task force will focus on government and industry supply chains and criminal and nation-state hacker efforts to compromise contractors and subcontractors deep within those supply chains, the department said.
This is the first major deliverable from the risk management center, which is focused on several efforts, including identifying the nation’s highest value digital assets so they can be better protected from cyberattacks and improving long-term election cybersecurity.
“The nature of supply chain threats, because they…
