President Obama nominated Jeh Johnson to succeed Janet Napolitano as head of DHS. DHS has experienced significant turnover this past year. Experts: New Secretary Needs to Build Continuity, Consistency at Department of Homeland Security. Cybersecurity “ought to be one of the defining issues for the incoming secretary,” says Tony Sager. Sager: DHS should take the lead in getting various parties to define best information security practices, but also IT security product standards. If confirmed, Johnson should lead effort to get anti-malware producers to work with government in making it easier to identify cyberthreat signatures.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/stabilizing-dhs-cybersecurity-leadership-a-6162