The head of the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security said integration of cyber and physical security efforts is the key to defusing an increasingly dangerous link between attacks on critical infrastructure and government facilities.
“I’m a firm believer that the first indication we are likely to have of a significant cyber incident will be seeing its physical consequences,” NPPD Undersecretary Suzanne Spaulding said at a homeland security conference on Oct. 8.
She added that NPPD’s current structure makes it difficult for cyber defenders to share critical information with the people in charge of physical security.
Her proposal to reorganize NPPD would place cybersecurity experts in the same offices as the NPPD personnel responsible for monitoring the physical security of federal facilities and critical infrastructure. She said the pairing could provide a vital interaction between cyber and physical security experts who could ferret out electronic links to potentially suspicious physical activity more quickly, such as near-simultaneous attacks on railway facilities in different regions of the country. For the full article click here
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