Deputy Secretary of DHS On Agency's Role In Cybersecurity

itwbennett writes: In an interview with CSO's Ira Winkler, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas discusses the agency's cybersecurity role, breaking it down into 2 broad categories: helping protect .govs, and assisting .coms. When asked whether DHS is prepared to handle the additional responsibility that Congress is looking to give the agency, including insider threat detection and mitigation, Mayorkas said the agency has a 'current capacity' to assist .gov and .com to a 'very great' degree. But when asked whether the agency planned to outsource a lot of the capability it has been mandated to perform, as it recently did with intrusion detection, Mayorkas demurred, saying 'it's not a one-size fits all.'

DHS security? LOL!

[Anonymous Coward]

By DHS security for .coms, I assume that means assisting in preventing and mitigating intrusions from entities other than the NSA while simultaneously aiding the NSA in intrusions. We'll help secure your .com from everyone else as long as you let us add a few NSA backdoors. It's patriotic, after all!

Dear Americans

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Americans: for all that it's worthy to you, please disband this sprawling thing that the DHS is before it destroys all the good things your society has.

And don't take this as snide critique: other parts of the world (the one I live in most certainly!) have their versions of the same challenge.

Don't let fear kill all the achievements our ancestors have reached, with much blood, sweat and tears.

Re: Dear Americans

[TheReaperD]

DHS isn't the disease, it's a symptom of a much larger problem. Large money interests now almost entirely control the federal government and now are turning it against its own citizens to keep the plebeians in check, while at the same time, shoveling money into their pockets.

Re:

[TheReaperD]

Touche. Sometimes you have to fight the symptoms and the disease at the same time, whether you want to or not.

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[TheReaperD]

Anything that the oligarchs really don't like or anything that would remove them from their self-created seats of power or otherwise diminish their power in any way. Sorry, I took for granted this would be obvious.

DHS's cybersecurity role is to say "cybersecurity"

[waspleg]

as many times as necessary to get increased funding as another pseudo military branch of the US gov't. Do we even know how many TLAs there are at this point?

Apparently they get $55.1 billion [wikipedia.org] How about a cost/benefit analysis, cause they've apparently got the money to write a fucking march.

I mean, shit, we could have 10 new Navy destroyers instead!!

Or, I don't know, maybe no homeless people. I bet no homeless would do a lot for "homeland security". I think well fed/housed/employed people are less likely to shoot up theaters and bomb things, just saying.

He just doesn't care

[l0n3s0m3phr34k]

About identity theft. foreign countries, or anything else. Because if he did, he would stop suggesting that we purposely destroy the only thing between us and them: encryption. I don't think he's just stupid and doesn't understand that making "holes" will also allow others to get into them; he either doesn't care or actually wants this to happen. I'm now leaning to "want this to happen", because this would actually help his own political agenda.

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MAFIAA Enforcement

[Varenthos]

They also seem to be the puppets of the MAFIAA when it comes to enforcing copyright.

Border - DONE! Airports - DONE! Cybersecurity -

[gavron]

not done.

Yes, the US Department of Homeland Security, famous for having given guns to drug smugglers that kill US people http://www.washingtontimes.com... [washingtontimes.com] and have been leering at naked pictures of US airport travelers http://www.wired.com/2012/05/b... [wired.com] can't even stop weapons from going onboard http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/... [cnn.com] now want to give us advice on cyber[sic]-security.

I'd rather take security advice from the seventeen year old kid next door. He is probably more up to date, in better shape mentally