DHS ramps up supply chain security efforts
The Department of Homeland Security has embarked on a new effort to identify short-term solutions to close security gaps in the nation's telecommunications infrastructure, the agency's top cybersecurity official announced Aug. 15.
Chris Krebs, undersecretary of the National Protection and Programs Directorate at DHS, told an advisory group meeting that the push is designed to shore up the domestic infrastructure base.
Krebs made the announcement at a meeting of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which is leading a "moonshot" effort launched last May to take a whole-of-nation approach to sprawling cybersecurity challenges. Krebs said the DHS study will connect with the NSTAC moonshot effort and define where NSTAC could provide capabilities and solutions to protect telecommunications infrastructure. It will also look at how federal policy might incentivize those solutions.
