DHS' Napolitano hits the ground running on cybersecurity

Jan. 26, 2009

Thanks to Bob Radvanovsky for noticing this post...

In his blog, http://criticalinfrastructure.blogspot.com/2009/01/us-dhs-secretary-napolitano-issues.html, Booz & Co. analyst Andrea Rigoni notes:

Thanks to Bob Radvanovsky for noticing this post...

In his blog, http://criticalinfrastructure.blogspot.com/2009/01/us-dhs-secretary-napolitano-issues.html, Booz & Co. analyst Andrea Rigoni notes:

On her first official day as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Janet Napolitano issued five Action Directives, all centered on one of the primary missions of DHS: Protection. In the coming days, Secretary Napolitano will issue other action directives focused on other missions critical to the department: Preparedness, Response, Recovery and Immigration.

The action directives Secretary Napolitano issued today on protection instruct specific offices and agencies to gather information, review existing strategies and programs, and to provide oral and written reports back to her by a time certain. The areas in which today’s action directives were issued are: critical infrastructure protection; risk analysis; state and local intelligence sharing; transportation security; and state, local and tribal integration.

“One of my top priorities is to unify this department and to create a common culture. These action directives are designed to begin a review, evaluation and dialogue between the various functions of this department and me,” said Secretary Napolitano. “I look forward to receiving the information and to working with the offices and agencies involved to make DHS a more effective and a more efficient department.”

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