As reports of cybersecurity incidents grow, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials plan to improve their ability to work on the problem face to face with private-sector experts.

The DHS plans to collocate private-sector employees from the communications and IT industries with government workers at the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) facility here, said Gregory Garcia, assistant secretary of cybersecurity and telecommunications at the DHS.

The teams will work jointly on improving US-CERT's information hub for cybersecurity, Garcia said. The agency didn't specify a starting date for the program but said it will begin soon.

US-CERT is a four-year-old DHS-run joint effort of the public and private sectors to protect the nation's Internet infrastructure. "It's through this collocation that we are going to build a strong trust relationship, an information-sharing relationship," said Garcia.

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