Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU: A+, Network+, Security+, and CASP
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for protecting the U.S. Nation's critical infrastructure from physical and cyber threats. Within DHS, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is responsible for Information sharing and the creation of situational awareness of malicious cyber activity within the Cyberspace. “Cyberspace enables businesses and government to operate, facilitates emergency preparedness communications, and enables critical control systems processes” as stated in a US-CERT overview. The protection of these systems is essential to the resilience and reliability of U.S. critical infrastructure, key resources, and to the economic national security.
Cyberspace has integrated distinct information structures, including business and government operations, U.S. emergency preparedness communications, and critical digital and process control systems and infrastructures. Protection of information systems is crucial to the resilience and reliability of the U.S. critical infrastructure and key resources, which equates to U.S. economic and national security.
The panel, made up of government and industry, will address the challenges of protecting information within Cyberspace and share their business and/or operational approach to protecting information systems and how their business processes can be applied to the Department of Defense role of enabling cyber integration to support operations.
Key topics include:
- A brief overview of the DHS role of protecting critical infrastructure from physical and cyber threats.
- The role of industry in not only protecting their critical infrastructure, but how their “best practices” may be applied to the Department of Defense (DOD).
- How industry and government can share critical process control systems to strengthen Cyberspace Security.
- How industry “best practices” can be applied to the acquisition process to help develop and deploy solutions to support industry, government, and the NCCIC who has oversight of the Nations Critical Infrastructure.