On May 15, the Department of Homeland Security released its long-awaited Cybersecurity Strategy.

The Strategy aims to reduce cybersecurity risk through “an innovative approach that fully leverages our collective capabilities across the Department and the entire cybersecurity community.” It sets a course of cybersecurity policy for the Department for the next five years and signals a more assertive approach to cyber vis a vis other agencies by setting forth clearer consequence for agencies that don’t adopt best practices. It also fleshes out an initiative for DHS to engage the private sector more actively and share cybersecurity tools directly with industry, especially critical infrastructure sectors such as hospitals, information technology, health care, transportation systems and chemical plants.
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