Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said the agency’s increased efforts...
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said the agency’s increased efforts on cybersecurity “are showing results.” Her remarks came during a speech at the National Press Club Monday. “We continue to work with the private sector, other government national security…
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and law enforcement agencies and the international community to mitigate the risks and reduce the potential for a malicious actor to be successful. Last year, our Computer Emergency Readiness Team responded to more than 100,000 incident reports, and released more than 5,000 actionable cybersecurity alerts to our federal, state, and private sector partners,” she said. “These efforts are showing results. In the last year alone, the U.S. Secret Service prevented $5.6 billion in potential losses through financial crime investigations and $1.5 billion through cybercrime investigations.” Last May the White House urged Congress to expand DHS authority to address and modify the U.S. response to cybersecurity threats (CD May 13 p10). But industry members and some House Republican leaders including Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, remain hesitant to give DHS the power to scrutinize the cybersecurity plans of American businesses (CD Oct 12 p12). Nevertheless, DHS is “deploying the latest tools across the federal government to protect critical systems while sharing timely and actionable security information with public and private sector partners to help them protect their own operations,” Napolitano said.