Cybersecurity: DHS' Role, Federal Efforts, and National Policy: One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, June 16, 2010

Today's hearing will examine the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to secure cyberspace. Since 1997, GAO has designated information security as a high-risk area in the Federal Government. Ten years later, information security is still high risk. Some would say that it is the difficulty of this task that keeps us from achieving it, but I know that few things worth doing are easy. Security of the Federal Government’s network from a wide array of cyber attackers is not easy, but few tasks are more necessary.