DHS and NSA getting married?

["George Bonser" <gbonser () seven com>]

An agreement signed this month with the Department of Homeland Security
and an earlier initiative to protect companies in the defense industrial
base make it likely that the military will be a key part of any response
to a cyber attack.

While the Department of Homeland Security officially remains the lead
government agency on cyber defense, the new agreement "sets up an
opportunity for DHS to take advantage of the expertise" in the Pentagon,
and particularly the secretive electronic spying agency, the National
Security Agency, said Butler, who is a deputy assistant defense
secretary.

The two agencies - Defense and Homeland Security - "will help each other
in more tangible ways then they have in the past," Butler told a group
of defense reporters.

Among other things, a senior DHS cyber official and other DHS employees
will move to the NSA to be closer to the heart of the military's cyber
defense capability. Closer collaboration provides "an opportunity to
look at new ways that we can do national cyber incident response, he
said.

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