DHS to chemical industry: Sensitive information about cyber vulnerabilities is safe with us

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Andy Ozment urged chemical industry officials to sign up for the department's information-sharing and other cyber assistance programs, suggesting that the chemical makers may not be as secure as they think by citing the recent attacks on the Ukrainian power grid as an example of what could happen to them.

Ozment assured industry officials that information about potential cyber vulnerabilities, shared with DHS, would not be passed along to regulators, a concern that industry...