U.S. Department of Homeland Security building in Washington, D.C. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
The U.S Department of Homeland Security has refocused its efforts to promote private-sector cybersecurity with the launch of a new National Risk Management Center. Announced at the DHS’s National Cybersecurity Summit in New York City, the new center will look to collaborate with the private sector on identifying and reducing cyber threats and developing risk management strategies.
Speaking at the summit in late July, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said the center “would recast what is now NPPD, or the National Protection and Programs Directorate—our cybersecurity arm—into an ambitious operational agency capable of better confronting digital threats.”
She added that the goal of the center is to become a first resource for companies after they experience a cyber incident. “I occasionally still hear of companies and locals that call 9-1-1 when they believe they’ve been under a cyberattack,” she said. “The best thing to do would be to call this center.”
Whether the center will succeed…
