Homeland Security Flexes Muscles with New Cybersecurity Strategy

NextGov: The Homeland Security Department plans to take a more muscular approach to cybersecurity in coming months, including by establishing clearer consequences for federal agencies that don’t adopt best practices, according to an updated cybersecurity strategy released Wednesday.

Homeland Security is the government’s lead civilian agency for cybersecurity but has struggled to force other agencies to take the cyber threat seriously or to allocate sufficient resources to the threat.

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