DHS S&T, CISA Industry Day Presents Mobile Network Infrastructure Solicitation

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) presented a recently released research and development funding project to secure mobile network infrastructure at an Industry Day event May 16. The solicitation stemmed from a study on mobile device security that S&T conducted and submitted to Congress. It found that given current and emerging threats to Federal use of mobile devices, there needs to be security improvements to the mobile device ecosystem. More specifically, S&T identified the following threats to mobile network infrastructure that it’s looking to industry now to help them solve.