CISA official Hartman describes agency’s central role on info-sharing, efforts to counter growing cyber threats

Bolstering the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s role as the “hub” for cyber incident reporting and info-sharing is essential, according to CISA official Matthew Hartman, who offered an overview of how President Biden’s cyber executive order and other actions match up against an increasingly dangerous and sophisticated threat environment.

Federal agencies have made “tremendous progress” in recent years to improve the cybersecurity of their networks, Hartman said, but vulnerabilities revealed over the last six months in the SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange...