The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has the responsibility to protect critical infrastructure, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has a law enforcement function through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that is critical to cybersecurity, and the Department of Defense (DoD) has the responsibility to defend the nation.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has the responsibility to protect critical infrastructure, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has a law enforcement function through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that is critical to cybersecurity, and the Department of Defense (DoD) has the responsibility to defend the nation. Write a 5-page paper on 1 of the 2 case studies focusing on the interagency relationships and the success or failure of the effort to date. Assess why the effort has failed or succeeded. Focus on bureaucratic interests, politics, and decision-making models in your analysis. Choose 1 of the following on which to write your paper: Outline and explain the political, bureaucratic, and rational factors behind the evolution of cybersecurity strategy and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) organizations to address cybersecurity from 2003 to the present. Tell why a separate Officer for Cybersecurity and Communications was created and the consequences of this reorganization with regard to a unified approach to critical infrastructure protection within DHS. Make observations or recommendations on how cybersecurity and physical security concerns, interests, and organizations could be improved. Develop a single PowerPoint slide that shows the cybersecurity-related roles, responsibilities, and authorities and how they interrelate between DHS, DOJ, and DoD. Each of the agencies plays a critical role in establishing and implementing cybersecurity policy. Refer to Presidential Policy Directive 8, which provides definitions for protection, prevention, response, recovery, and so forth as categories for how these agency roles may overlap or complement each other.