DHS' cyber moves may address both a security need and a political problem

As DHS fills in the details on the risk management initiative promoted at last week's cyber summit, industry sources and others say the coming months will determine whether this is an important new step in cybersecurity policy, a political exercise, or perhaps some of both.

“What problem are they trying to solve?” one cyber policy veteran asked -- skeptically -- of the effort to stand up a new National Risk Management Center and give it a lead role on supply...