Matthew Travis, deputy undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Programs and Protection Directorate (NPPD), said today that DHS’s recently-established National Risk Management Center (NRMC) represents the agency’s plan to play “the long game” in defending U.S. critical infrastructure sectors from attacks.
Speaking at an event organized by the Digital Government Institute, Travis recapped the highlights of DHS’s July 31 announcement of the NRMC and contrasted its activities with those of DHS’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), which will continue its present function as a 24/7 cyber situational awareness, incident response, and management center that integrates input from the Federal government, intelligence community, and law enforcement.
He said NRMC was in one sense a “reincarnation” of DHS’s Office of Cyber Infrastructure Analysis, which was created in 2014 to implement Presidential Policy Directive 21–which calls for integrated analysis of critical infrastructure–and Executive Order 13636–which identifies critical infrastructure where cyber attacks could have catastrophic impacts to public…
