DHS’s Lessons Learned from Heartbleed

by Tomas O’Keefe, Senior Analyst

At a recent Washington Post event on cybersecurity recognizing National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, spoke of DHS’s “dire need” for cybersecurity legislation that better enables cyber threat information sharing and helps recruit top cybersecurity talent. While the sky isn’t falling in on Deputy Secretary Mayorkas and DHS, the failure of Congress to pass updated cybersecurity legislation has hindered the department’s ability to meet the rapidly shifting landscape of cyber threats.

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