With the burgeoning global growth of internet connectivity and web-enabled devices, there needs to be a national computer incident response capability in every country on earth.

"This is not a technical document ... This is about a very human process," says one of the authors from the prestigious Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon.

Stempfley will take over Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s CERT Division, the oldest Computer Emergency Response Team in the world, SEI announced this week.

Popular web-based Honeywell software programs that are used to control IT systems in wastewater, energy and manufacturing facilities, could be remotely hacked, according to DHS.

The federal teams charged with assessing and cataloging new vulnerabilities have a new manager as a result of a reorganization at DHS' National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.