The government’s first focus should be on ousting the intruders, Gorge said. You need to be in the mode that allows you to contain the hack as much as possible as you investigate,” he said.
The attackers likely breached other agencies or organizations in addition to those already identified, which simply makes it more urgent to root out the infiltrators. FireEye’s Mandia said the attacks appears to have started in the spring.
“This might be a domino effect,” Gorge said. “It’s a coordinated attack. It’s a sophisticated attack and I don’t think we’ve seen the end of it.”
The government is organizing its response to the intrusion without its top cybersecurity protection official. Last month, President Donald Trump fired Christopher Krebs, director of DHS' difference between computer engineering and computer science, after he declared that the election was the most secure in American history.
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