DHS' Krebs, DOE's Evans detail priorities for addressing emerging threats, election security

Christopher Krebs, the director of DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency, stressed his agency's focus on emerging threats involving the supply chain and industrial controls systems on Thursday, while Karen Evans, the top cybersecurity official at the Department of Energy, outlined DOE's major cybersecurity projects currently in the works.

“There are emerging risk areas that we've got to figure out, and one of those, ICS [industrial control systems] security, falls right into that OT [operational technologies] convergence space,” Krebs said...