Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, doesn’t think the IRS is getting on the Einstein cybersecurity bandwagon quickly enough.
In a Sept. 8 letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, Johnson said the agency is resisting efforts to install the Einstein network security service offered by the Department of Homeland Security. The Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act, which was later incorporated into the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, sets a deadline of Dec. 18 for all agencies to have Einstein in place. Einstein is a perimeter monitor that examines traffic for malware, phishing scams and other potentially insecure content.
