In a continued reorganization of the White House, The Hill reports that House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, has introduced a bill to raise the priority of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security. The bill would replace the National Protection and Programs Directorate with a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which would be headed by a director reporting to the DHS secretary rather than an undersecretary. In addition to the cyber and infrastructure security divisions marked in the legislation, the report states, the proposed agency would have a “privacy officer” to “ensure that its use of technology is consistent with privacy protections governing the use, collection and disclosure of personal information.”
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