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US-CERT Moves in With NCC, NCSC
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Fri Oct 30 08:36:48 2009
US-CERT Moves in With NCC, NCSC
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Oct 30, 2009
www.yahoo.com
The group responsible for coordinating U.S. responses to cyber threats
is getting new digs.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano will
cut the ribbon Friday at a new "unified operations center" in Arlington,
Virginia, that will be home to the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness
Team (US-CERT). It will also house the National Coordinating Center for
Telecommunications (NCC), and the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC),
which coordinates between three-letter government agencies such as the
National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The NCC monitors threats to the telecommunications system and
coordinates its restoration in the event of an attack or a natural disaster.
The three groups are being moved into one operations center in order to
improve communications between the units, said Amy.Kudwa, a spokeswoman
with the DHS. "The model of connecting the dots and sharing information
and physically co-locating has been one of the most important lessons
learned since 9/11," she said. "This is a similar model of collecting
experts who are working on different aspects of a larger issue."
The move is not a merger, however, Kudra added, saying that the agency
management structures will remain intact.
DHS is ending its National Cybersecurity Awareness Month with the
ribbon-cutting ceremony.
US-CERT, which works with both the private sector and the federal
government to coordinate response to computer-based attacks, is looking
for new management these days. Its last director, Mischel Kwon left to
join EMC's RSA division in August.
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