DHS Races to Get Obama's Signature on Cyber Response Plan

Nextgov: The Homeland Security Department wants to make sure an updated plan for how the government responds to major cyberattacks is set in stone before President Barack Obama leaves office, a DHS official said today.

The alternative is leaving the country with a 6-year-old interim plan while a new presidential administration settles in and forcing final approval of the new plan to battle for attention with hundreds of other priorities facing a new administration, Bridgette Walsh, a cyber branch chief with DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate, told members of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board.

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