DHS inspector general faults implementation of cyber law

The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General in its semiannual report to Congress finds the department has fallen short on implementing key portions of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 for protecting information technology assets, leaving contractors vulnerable to an attack.

According to the IG report, DHS has taken a number of steps to implement the new law, but found that “not all DHS components used data exfiltration protection capabilities to support data loss prevention, forensics and visibility, and...