'But who's in charge' is the question for feds in cybersecurity

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https://www.fifthdomain.com/civilian/dhs/2019/09/25/but-whos-in-charge-is-the-question-for-feds-in-cybersecurity/

By Andrew Eversden
Fifth Domain
September 25, 2019

In an event that brought two Cabinet secretaries and around 50 top federal and 
state officials together for three days of discussion on cybersecurity and 
critical infrastructure, one question remained: Who has the lead on information 
security issues in the United States?

It was an issue pondered aloud by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., the chairman of 
the Senate’s Homeland Security committee. Johnson said Sept. 19 he had recently 
sat through a classified 5G briefing with cabinet officials and had a similar 
inquiry then.

“The No. 1 question I [had] is ‘who’s in charge? Who is actually doing the 
problem definition when it comes to our challenge with 5G?,’” Johnson said at 
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s second annual national 
cybersecurity summit at National Harbor. “And nobody would really answer the 
question.”

“This is constant. This is common across the federal government,” Johnson 
added.

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