DHS Creates 3 New Units

  1. Government Forum of Incident Response Teams, or G-FIRST: includes officials from the 24-hour watch center within Yoran?s division, the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team, the Pentagon and civilian agencies.
  2. Chief Information Security Officers Forum: includes senior officials designated to oversee each agency?s cybersecurity and make sure agencies meet the mandates of the Federal Information Security Management.
  3. Cyber Interagency Incident Management Group: includes officials from law enforcement, national security and Defense Department agencies to provide a forum for planning responses to major cybersecurity incidents, he said.