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White House, DHS Planning ‘Cyber Security Moonshot,’ First Study Set For November

White House, DHS Planning ‘Cyber Security Moonshot,’ First Study Set For November
Jeanette Manfra, Assistant Director for Cybersecurity with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: Department of Homeland Security

Department of Homeland Security and White House technology officials are working on a “cyber security moonshot” effort to fix lagging digital security issues in the face of growing adversarial cyber threats with a first study on the plan due in November.Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary at DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate, and Grant Schneider, the federal chief information security officer, told attendees at a Billington cyber summit Thursday the plan would focus on bettering governance of the Internet and engaging…

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