Deputy Secretary of DHS On Agency's Role In Cybersecurity (csoonline.com)

itwbennett writes: In an interview with CSO's Ira Winkler, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas discusses the agency's cybersecurity role, breaking it down into 2 broad categories: helping protect .govs, and assisting .coms. When asked whether DHS is prepared to handle the additional responsibility that Congress is looking to give the agency, including insider threat detection and mitigation, Mayorkas said the agency has a 'current capacity' to assist .gov and .com to a 'very great' degree. But when asked whether the agency planned to outsource a lot of the capability it has been mandated to perform, as it recently did with intrusion detection, Mayorkas demurred, saying 'it's not a one-size fits all.'

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Re: Dear Americans

[TheReaperD]

DHS isn't the disease, it's a symptom of a much larger problem. Large money interests now almost entirely control the federal government and now are turning it against its own citizens to keep the plebeians in check, while at the same time, shoveling money into their pockets.

DHS's cybersecurity role is to say "cybersecurity"

[waspleg]

as many times as necessary to get increased funding as another pseudo military branch of the US gov't. Do we even know how many TLAs there are at this point?

Apparently they get $55.1 billion How about a cost/benefit analysis, cause they've apparently got the money to write a fucking march.

I mean, shit, we could have 10 new Navy destroyers instead!!

Or, I don't know, maybe no homeless people. I bet no homeless would do a lot for "homeland security". I think well fed/housed/employed people are less likely to shoot up theaters and bomb things, just saying.

pretty clearly stated.

[nimbius]

translation: as an agency thats evolved from a knee-jerk response to a terrorist event, we're now doing goddamn near everything. border protection? yep. those flunkies at the airport that touch you? we still technically handle that. but did you know? we handle such cyber security events as:
1. whenever sudo reports an unauthorized root user? it gets emailed to us. cathy specifically. unless its friday then she takes a long lunch so its kennith in the guard shack when he takes breaks from marmaduke
2. connection tracking in iptables? jack handles most of that with a spreadsheet he keeps in his desk drawer. i swear. hes got a spreadsheet for darn near everything.
3. Deep packet inspection. Most of your packets get dumped into an abandoned rural swimming pool and we have a few folks down there sift through with their 'smellin hounds' for any terrorism.
4. we're in charge of adding the word cyber. Cyberterrorism? yep. cybercrime? another one we coined. Cyberwatermelon and cybertoilet arent really catching on though but we've got others. janice is brutal at boggle so we put her on it.