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HHS faces flak over new cyber center

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The Department of Health and Human Services’ new national cybersecurity intelligence-sharing clearinghouse appears to duplicate the role of similar entities in the federal government and in the private sector, say key lawmakers and some leaders in the health care industry. Critics say the creation of the Healthcare Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, or HCCIC, is moving the goalposts for the industry, which was answering the U.S. government’s call to create a private-sector cyberthreat-sharing ecosystem. HCCIC is being modeled after the Department of Homeland Security’s 24-hour watch center, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, or NCCIC — and some fret it may duplicate its functions. Defenders of the new clearinghouse are playing down the idea that HCCIC might be redundant. They argue it can provide a depth of specialist knowledge about the health care sector DHS lacks, and that the industry’s own membership-based information sharing organizations cannot match the universal service HCCIC will provide. The health care industry “feels […]

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Rudy Giuliani is helping draw up cyber doctrine, DNI says, but details are scarce

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Donald Trump confidant and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is one of the leading voices in designing a “cyber doctrine” for the U.S., according to the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, but there is little information about how that process is going. The long-awaited doctrine — a broadly defined framework that lawmakers hope will one day serve to define the nation’s boundaries in cyberspace and rules of engagement — has been a consistent albeit vague talking point on Capitol Hill for the last year. Senior Republicans — including Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain of Arizona — have called on colleagues and the executive branch to develop policy that establishes a clear “red line” for when the U.S. will aggressively respond to specific cyber incidents. At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday concerning “worldwide threats” — a conversation that included an overview of cyber conflicts between the […]

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