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Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (center) at a security news conference for Super Bowl XLIV, on February 1, 2010. A National Special Security Event (NSSE) is an event of national or international significance deemed by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to be a potential target for terrorism or other criminal activity.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for cybersecurity and infrastructure protection across all levels of government, coordinating cybersecurity programs with U.S. states, and improving the government's cybersecurity protections against private and nation-state hackers. [4]
President Trump Signs the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act into law. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018 (H.R. 3359, Pub. L. 115–278 (text)) was signed by president Donald Trump on November 16, 2018, to establish the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the Department of Homeland Security.
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The concept of a national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for the United States was proposed by Marcus Sachs (Auburn University) when he was a staff member for the U.S. National Security Council in 2002 to be a peer organization with other national CERTs such as AusCERT and CERT-UK, and to be located in the forthcoming Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In addition, the program addresses detection of computer worms, anomalies in inbound and outbound traffic, configuration management as well as real-time trends analysis which CISA offers to U.S. departments and agencies on the "health of the Federal.gov domain". [1] EINSTEIN was designed to collect session data including: [1]
The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) is a "round-the-clock cyber threat monitoring and mitigation center for state and local governments" operated by CIS under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security [7] (DHS), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency [8] (CISA). [9]
Mass gatherings are events attended by a sufficient number of people to strain the planning and response resources of the host community, state/province, nation, or region where it is being held. [1] [2] Definitions of a mass gathering generally include the following: Planned (long term or spontaneously planned) event