The Department of Homeland Security has expanded, opening a new cybersecurity center near Washington last week to house some of the department's computer defense programs.

The center--located in Arlington, Va.--is long overdue. It's designed to improve national efforts to deal with threats to critical information technology and cyber infrastructure. It's known as the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) and will be a unified operations center, according to DHS.

It will have plenty of cybersecurity defenses, including the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications, and the National Cyber Security Center, DHS said.

Does this sound like too much alphabet soup and just another layer of bureaucracy? It sure does to us. Nevertheless, it is part of the government's plan to keep us safe. It's time that the government triple arm itself against cyber attacks.

For more on cybersecurity:
- see this Federal Computer Week article

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