Homeland Security Working to Fight Cyberattacks, Napolitano Says
Homeland Security Working to Fight Cyberattacks, Napolitano Says
At COA’s Annual Conference, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano spoke on the administration’s efforts to address cyber security, immigration reform, and increase cooperation with Mexico on drug-related violence.
The Obama administration is working “full-bore” on helping the business and government agencies confront the threat of cyberattacks, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today.
Napolitano’s comments came two days after the Pentagon directly accused China’s military of probing U.S. government computers for sensitive data. That report follows comments in March by U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, who said China was engaged in a “large scale” effort to steal trade secrets and intellectual property.
Cybersecurity is the fastest growing-part of Napolitano’s agency, which is helping critical industries develop voluntary cybersecurity standards, she said in remarks today at the Conference of the Americas. Speaking at the State Department event in Washington, the former Arizona governor also said she hoped her agency would be busy implementing on overhaul of immigration laws.
“In terms of real-time, ongoing threat in the United States to our infrastructure, and thereby to our way of doing life, cyber is a very, very concerning and active field,” Napolitano said today. “So it’s one of the things, as I said in my early remarks, we’re really full-bore on.”
Her department has major responsibilities for securing the Internet domains, Napolitano said. It also is responsible for securing and working with the private sector on critical infrastructure. “We have a very tight timeline for setting the standards for that,” she said....
