The Trump administration is developing a national risk management initiative aimed at tightening communication lines between government and industry about major cyber vulnerabilities, a top Homeland Security Department official said Friday.
The effort will link Homeland Security and the Energy and Treasury departments with companies in their sectors as well as smaller agencies that regulate or interact with specific sectors that face cyber threats, said Chris Krebs, undersecretary of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity and infrastructure protection division.
“It’s not just about government working together, it’s about industry and government working together,” Krebs said during a cyber event hosted by The Washington Post. “We have to have integrated, cross-sector government-industry collaboration in the cybersecurity space and in the critical infrastructure protection space and that’s where we’re going.”
A Homeland Security spokesman declined to provide additional details about the initiative or a timeline.
Homeland Security has increasingly framed its approach to cybersecurity as a “risk management” effort in recent years. That roughly translates to figuring…
