[4] According to The Washington Post, Beckstrom resigned, "...due to a lack of resources and because there were efforts underway to fold his group – as well as the division Reitinger is joining – into a facility at the NSA."
It combined two DHS organizations: the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications (NCC).
In June 2009, the White House published a Cyber Security Policy Review;[6] however, the NCCIC was not explicitly mentioned in that document.
Its primary duty is to coordinate the federal activities necessary to carry out the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), a White House initiative dedicated to making the Internet a more secure environment for consumers.
[7] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Homeland Security.