The Department of Homeland Security will issue a national cybersecurity strategy in mid-May, the DHS chief told a key House committee oversight hearing.
“It will be shortly, within the next two weeks,” DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee on April 26 during a full committee hearing on the agency’s fiscal 2019 budget request.
The strategy’s release has been anticipated in the last month, but the official deadline has long passed. The National Defense Authorization Act in 2016 directed the DHS secretary to develop a departmental cybersecurity strategy and submit it to Congress within 90 days of the act’s passage. The strategy’s official due date was over a year ago.
