DOD and DHS Need More Collaboration on Cybersecurity Issues
July 28, 2021
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A greater level of cooperation is needed between the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that U.S. critical infrastructure is protected against various cyberthreats, according to an inspector general's report released this week.
The report recommends that both the Defense Department and DHS complete the obligations outlined in a 2018 memorandum that both departments signed, which includes details of responses to a variety of cyberthreats that threatened American critical infrastructure.
Specifically, the report recommends that the Joint DOD-DHS Cyber Protection and Defense Steering Group create milestones to track the progress of completing the 2018 agreement and that both departments do tracking to ensure the agreement is being implemented.