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New National Cyber Incident Response Plan
The NCIRP provides a consistent and common approach and vocabulary to enable the whole community to work together to manage cyber incidents seamlessly. The NCIRP directly responds to private sector requests for clarity on the roles...
Putting the privacy into cybersecurity at DHS
In our work at DHS, privacy protections are key trust enablers to many of our services in the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C). These range from the intrusion detection and prevention services (EINSTEIN) provided to...
DHS helps you make your control systems more secure
After a zero-day exploit to the maritime transportation sector, DHS's National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center notified potentially-affected U.S. ports about the threat. They described the apparent vulnerability...
Building the DHS cybersecurity workforce
At the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), we fight against the world’s toughest cyber adversaries. Our best weapon is our people. So today, we are sharing two videos with you to help us meet this mission. They show the work...
ISAO standards organization sets guidelines for sharing information
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), the Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO) Standards Organization, published four guidance documents on creating and operating an ISAO.
Lighting up a changing world
Everything from water and energy utilities to medical devices to food and drug production systems benefit from lightning fast operations that can be managed remotely or automatically. That provides exponential advances in speed, cost,...
National cyber incident response plan: We need your input
A presidential directive directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop a National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP) to outline both the private sector and the government’s cyber incident response roles and...
Advancing cybersecurity through automated indicator sharing
As the number of cybersecurity incidents increase, both the government and the private sector have worked together to introduce an info-sharing program to help address the threats.
Cyber incident response: Who does what?
“Who in the government will help me if we face a significant cyber incident?”
