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Cyber

DHS Establishes Review Board For Post-Cyber Incident Analysis

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 3rd, 2022

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DHS Establishes Review Board For Post-Cyber Incident Analysis

Rob Silvers, DHS under secretary for strategy, policy, and plans, will chair the new Cyber Safety Review Board. Photo: DHS

At the direction of President Biden’s 2021 cybersecurity executive order, the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday announced the standup of a review board comprised of government and industry experts to conduct post-incident analyses of significant cyber events and provide advice and recommendations based on lessons learned to the broader security community. The Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) will first take-up vulnerabilities discovered in late 2021 in the log4j software library that are being exploited by threat actors and represent…

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