Amid persistent concerns about cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, a relatively new White House office is reviewing whether agencies charged with securing specific sectors are putting their cybersecurity resources and authorities to good use.
National Cyber Director Chris Inglis said his office is evaluating the resources, roles and responsibilities of sector risk management agencies. He said the performance assessments are being done in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
“We’ll walk across each of the SRMA’s, I think we’ll discover that they have uneven performance,” Inglis said during a March 30 meeting of CISA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee. “Some of them are operational, some of them are not. And then at the end of that, determine not simply an academic assessment, but recommendations about what we do to get them all up to a level set in terms of their performance.”
A policy directive issued during the Obama administration designated sector-specific agencies to oversee the cybersecurity of each of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors. Most of…
