The U.S. Army Installation Management Command reported that the number of participants in its annual Cyber Installation Support Summit has expanded since its first installment in 2014.

Lt. Gen. Kenneth Dahl and Maj. Gen. Lawarren Patterson co-chaired this year’s summit and discussed the expansion of the team from 40 representatives of Army elements in 2014 to its current group of around 100 people from the U.S. Cyber Command, National Security Agency, U.S. Army Reserve and sister services, the Army reported April 8.

“A few years ago it became apparent that the growth of cyber within the Army and the [Defense Department] was going to become a very large, complex mission, particularly from the standpoint of building out facilities to support cyber training and operations,” said Patterson, IMCOM deputy commanding general for operations and chief of staff.

Army IMCOM oversees 73 installations that work to protect global U.S. interests and require a line of defense in cybersecurity, the service branch said.

“IMCOM should be looking to pull together all service providers, all the people who have a stake or an equity involved, and then integrate that,” said Dahl.

He and Patterson noted that funding and prioritization are also focal points of discussion at the summit.

“We look at facility growth and planned facility growth to determine what priorities are urgent and what can wait,” explained Patterson.

The summit is scheduled quarterly and held in rotation at Fort Belvoid, Fort Gordon, Fort Meade and the IMCOM headquarters.

Phyllis Schneck, deputy undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security for cybersecurity and communications, has said DHS is ready to help secure federal networks with the National Cybersecurity Protection System, Fedscoop reported Thursday.

Greg Otto writes Schneck told an Intel Security-sponsored forum that the department uses the system, nicknamed Einstein, to gain situational awareness of cyber threats as DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate explore ways to bolster the platform’s  intrusion detection and prevention functions.

She added DHS aims to facilitate exchange of threat information between companies and agencies through the department’s Automated Indicator Sharing initiative.

The report said the department also uses data collected during cyber investigations by the Secret Service and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center says there were 6,013 reported cases of data breaches since 2005 across the government, financial services, healthcare and education sectors.

The nonprofit organization collaborated with Arizona-based information security firm IDT911 on the study and found that nearly 6.2 million personal data have been exposed in 2016 alone.

According to the report, breaches in the government sector resulted in the exposure of 57.4 million Social Security numbers and 389,000 debit or credit cards of government employees and service personnel over the last decade.

Negligence or errors by government employees led to 61 breaches that compromised 7 million records.

ITRC noted that the Internal Revenue Service saw a 400 percent increase in malware and phishing incidents between January 2016 and February 2016.

“Tax refund fraud continues to rise creating almost unbearable issues for victims nationwide,” said ITRC CEO Eva Velasquez, CEO of ITRC.

“It is our belief that the 575 healthcare breaches since 2010 – that have exposed more than 142 million Social Security numbers – are contributing to this increase,” she added.