Describe the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), created in 2003 through the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which was passed in response to the events of September 11, 2001.
Outline the structure of DHS and its five directorates or divisions through which it carries out its mission of protecting the people, as well as the physical and informational assets, of the United States. Note the ones that are applicable to information security in the text:
The Science and Technology Directorate is responsible for research and development activities in support of homeland defense.
Identify that DHS works with academic institutions nationally, focusing on resilience, recruitment, internationalization, growing academic maturity, and academic research.
Emphasize that its efforts are ensuring the continuing examination of vulnerabilities throughout the nation’s infrastructure. This occurs through the extended role from its cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which offers a variety of services to government, industry and the private sector, academia, nonprofit/NGO organizations, and the general public through its services portal, as illustrated in its services catalog.