House homeland security chair McCaul pushes for cyber agency at DHS

House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) – backed by a panel of high-profile cyber policy veterans – today touted his proposal for creating a cybersecurity agency at the Department of Homeland Security as key to achieving policy goals such as developing an “in-depth” defensive strategy and attracting skilled cyber workers to government.

“[W]e have already begun to work with the Trump administration and others to make that a reality in the near future,” McCaul said at a full committee...