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Trump Signs Bill That Creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: U.S. President Donald Trump signed today a bill into law, approving the creation of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The bill, known as the CISA Act, reorganizes and rebrands the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), a program inside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as CISA, a standalone federal agency in charge of overseeing civilian and federal cybersecurity programs. The NPPD, which was first established in 2007, has already been handling almost all of the DHS' cyber-related issues and projects.
As part of the DHS, the NPPD was the government entity in charge of physical and cyber-security of federal networks and critical infrastructure, and oversaw the Federal Protective Service (FPS), the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM), the Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA), the Office of Cybersecurity & Communications (OC&C), and the Office of Infrastructure Protection (OIP). As CISA, the agency's prerogatives will remain the same, and nothing is expected to change in day-to-day operations, but as a federal agency, CISA will now benefit from an increased budget and more authority in imposing its directives. "Elevating the cybersecurity mission within the Department of Homeland Security, streamlining our operations, and giving NPPD a name that reflects what it actually does will help better secure the nation's critical infrastructure and cyber platforms," said NPPD Under Secretary Christopher Krebs. "The changes will also improve the Department's ability to engage with industry and government stakeholders and recruit top cybersecurity talent."
As part of the DHS, the NPPD was the government entity in charge of physical and cyber-security of federal networks and critical infrastructure, and oversaw the Federal Protective Service (FPS), the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM), the Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA), the Office of Cybersecurity & Communications (OC&C), and the Office of Infrastructure Protection (OIP). As CISA, the agency's prerogatives will remain the same, and nothing is expected to change in day-to-day operations, but as a federal agency, CISA will now benefit from an increased budget and more authority in imposing its directives. "Elevating the cybersecurity mission within the Department of Homeland Security, streamlining our operations, and giving NPPD a name that reflects what it actually does will help better secure the nation's critical infrastructure and cyber platforms," said NPPD Under Secretary Christopher Krebs. "The changes will also improve the Department's ability to engage with industry and government stakeholders and recruit top cybersecurity talent."
F--K YEAH!
Adding water to the swamp now are we?
Your Trump cyber force is awake.
You are welcome on my lawn.
....since fake news are a threat to national security they should be tasked with shutting down some twitter accounts
How to filter this apk shit out ?
And why doesn't slashdot do it themselves ffs ?
Anytime the government forms a new department these days you can pretty much bet they are failing at that badly and need a smokescreen that will make it look like they are doing something. The consumer protection agency was the same thing. They swung for the fences while trying to set it up, but once the suit weasels got done with them, they couldn't police a bingo game.
Watch him arrest whoever his opponent in the 2020 election is.
CISA in the field of info security Refers to a particular ISACA certification for security auditors. It's even a trademarked acronym. Wth do these government people think they are, stomping all over companies' IP and stealing acronyms for their own use?
Slashdot is a free-speech site. Stop reading at 0 or -1 if you don't like it you nutsack.
... renamed it.
I feel much more secure now.
Oh, and I almost forgot: quantum bitcoin.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
are there that many prisons?
Unfortunately..
How to filter this apk shit out ?
I think that you can do it with a hosts file entry...
"You want to know how to help your kids? Leave them the fuck alone." -George Carlin
And if this was created by Obama and Trump killed it you would be here say Trump doesnt care about cyber security and killed it to make it easier for Russian hackers in 2020.
why is it tax dollars are apparently used for their federal stuff to protect their federal stuff rather than the whole country. hmmmm DARPA.. Internet ... made publicly available in 1993.....well uncle sam, you finally got around to it. letting the public use what you so carefully funded for your own gains and the rest of us had to use the Post Office
hhmmmm... why is there not a massive FAIL2BAN on every INBOUND .. it would not be that hard and of course, when you get it wrong during account setup there could be some rules there that are impossible to spoof....
it was doing just fine until Trump and a GOP lead Congress gutted it.
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