NPPD cyber and infrastructure security personnel are side by side

The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity center has a new joint threat watch for cyber and infrastructure, said a top DHS cyber official.

Phyllis Schneck, deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity and communications at the Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Program Directorate, said that as of Dec. 15, there is a “joint watch” of physical security and cyber security personnel at the agency’s National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center, or NCCIC.

Schneck said in remarks at a CS&C Dec. 16 Industry Day that the NCCIC now has “infrastructure protection watch personnel sitting with our cyber watch personnel,” to provide wider situational awareness of physical and cyber threat information. For the full article click here 

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