According to a senior DHS cyber officer, the cybersecurity center of the Department of Homeland Security has a new joint threat watch for infrastructure and cyber.As of December 15, there is a “joint watch” of physical security and cyber security personnel at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center, or NCCIC, of the Department of Homeland Security, according to Phyllis Schneck, deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity and communications at the agency’s National Protection and Program Directorate.In order to give a broader situational awareness of physical and cyber threat information, Schneck stated during a CS&C Dec. 16 Industry Day that the NCCIC now has “infrastructure protection watch personnel sitting with our cyber watch personnel.”
