The departures of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen and Secret Service head Randolph 'Tex' Allex will add to an already difficult public-private disconnect on cybersecurity.
The Department of Homeland Security is charged with supporting all of the designated"critical infrastructure" cybersecurity functions in the U.S., from financial services to electricity, nuclear and water facilities. The U.S. Secret Service investigates a significant portion of the country's private sector cyber threats -- with remit over all of those that involve financial fraud.
The departure also comes as the U.S. is trying to unite its private sector and government security efforts into a more streamlined approach. The lynchpins for this effort are DHS, the Secret Service and the FBI. It was a role for which Nielsen was especially well-suited. She has a background in both cybersecurity and private sector risk, a rarity for a public official at that level of government, where having ten years or more of cybersecurity experience almost always involves military service. She spent nearly seven years on the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at D.C.
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