{"id":33501,"date":"2021-03-31T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33501"},"modified":"2021-03-31T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:42:30","slug":"dhs-chief-lays-out-actions-to-boost-cybersecurity-after-major-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33501","title":{"rendered":"DHS chief lays out actions to boost cybersecurity after major hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland Security Secretary\u00a0Alejandro Mayorkas\u00a0on Wednesday issued a \u201ccall for action\u201d to confront mounting cybersecurity threats to the federal government, laying out a plan to combat hacking efforts following two major foreign cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas warned during a virtual speech hosted by RSA that \u201ccyber threats are coming dangerously close to threatening our lives\u201d and detailed plans for focusing on issues including debilitating ransomware attacks, bolstering the cyber workforce and securing critical infrastructure against attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government does not have the capacity to achieve our nation\u2019s cyber resilience alone,\u201d Mayorkas said. \u201cSo much of our critical infrastructure is in the private sector\u2019s hands. We need to work with the private sector to protect the interests of the American people and the services on which we rely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas\u2019s comments come as the federal government continues to respond to two major cyber espionage incidents carried out by foreign entities that were discovered over the past three months, and as the Biden administration works to roll out an executive order to strengthen federal cybersecurity after both incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary said Wednesday that the order would include \u201cnearly a dozen actions\u201d and that \u201cmore details would be shared soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland Security Secretary\u00a0Alejandro Mayorkas\u00a0on Wednesday issued&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33502,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501\/revisions\/33502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}