Jeanette Manfra
DHS orders agencies to patch faster
DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency now gives agencies 15 days after discovery to fix vulnerabilities deemed critical.
DHS’s NCCIC operations moved temporarily after storms in Virginia
Several key Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity services were disrupted last week after the Northern Virginia building they're housed in lost power during bad storms.
DHS boosts policy for protecting agency high-value assets
The new directive "introduces a more focused, integrated approach to addressing weaknesses across federal agency HVAs."
Manfra details how DHS will protect nation’s critical functions
The NPPD chief outlined how the department is working with the private sector to help safeguard the nation’s most essential functions from cyberattacks.
DHS tests manufacturing and transportation sectors in ‘Cyber Storm’ exercise
Exercise participants will respond to a simulated global threat to infrastructure over the course of the three-day exercise.
Jeanette Manfra
Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate