Kolasky says DHS risk assessment under Trump supply-chain order will not be made public

Bob Kolasky, director of DHS' National Risk Management Center, said a risk assessment due in August under a Trump executive order on securing the telecommunications supply chain will not be made public, but will be sent to the Commerce Department and White House to assist in developing regulatory requirements banning purchases from foreign adversaries.

The assessment “report will not be publicly released,” Kolasky said during a webinar co-hosted today by the USTelecom and Inside Cybersecurity on telecom and IT sector...