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IG: DHS Need Cyber Security Coordination Office

Alice Lipowicz writes on FCW.com:

The Homeland Security Department is moving too slowly to protect its most critical internal computer systems, according to a new report [.pdf] from the department’s inspector general, Richard Skinner.

The report recommends creating an office within DHS to determine protection priorities for its critical cyber infrastructure and coordinate efforts to protect those information technology assets.

Under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7, federal agencies must identify critical cyber infrastructures, and DHS uses an enterprise tool to identify those systems. But there is no process in place to rank those systems to ensure that the high-risk ones are protected.

“DHS has not determined which of these high-risk systems must be given priority when allocating protection resources,” Skinner wrote.

posted by Fergie @ 4/16/2008 01:14:00 PM