Collaborate Disseminate
Easterly, Krebs and others discuss Ivanti breach, expiring legal protections for companies that share threat data with feds, and JCDC progress.
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Bob Kolasky, head of the National Risk Management Center at CISA, announced Tuesday that he is leaving the agency. Kolasky’s work with the NRMC since its formation in 2018 has put him in the middle of the federal effort to help critical infrastructure companies assess their cyber risk. He’s also been active in a lot of other agency business. He co-chairs the Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, leads CISA’s work on secure 5G network development, chairs the High-Level Risk Forum for the international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and serves on the executive Committee for the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council. Kolasky hasn’t announced his plans after leaving the center, nor has CISA named a successor. During his 15 years of government service, CISA Director Jen Easterly said, “Bob worked tirelessly to expand collaboration across state, local, tribal, and territorial governments and the private […]
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As the Department of Homeland Security continues to change the way it handles various cyberthreats the U.S. faces, the agency’s head said it’s focusing on making essential functions provided by critical infrastructure sectors more resilient. “Today’s cybertattacks can manifest in physical consequences and attackers are deploying cyber weapons to disrupt and destruct, requiring much more sophisticated defenses,” DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said at the SINET conference in Washington on Thursday. “Infrastructure continues to be a significant target of interest for a diverse group of threat actors. Nation-states such as Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well as cybercriminals, terrorist groups, and others today can initiate attacks anywhere in the world, any time.” As DHS plays a lead role in warding off the cyberthreats Nielsen described, she described focusing on protecting specific critical infrastructure assets as an outdated norm. Instead, DHS is looking to focus on protecting essential functions that are the product of multiple […]
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