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Carter Announces DoD-NATO Plan To Bolster Cyber Defense

Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

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Carter Announces DoD-NATO Plan To Bolster Cyber Defense

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. Photo: Pentagon

The Defense Department plans to work with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence to bolster NATO counties cyber defenses, Secretary Ash Carter said on Tuesday.The department “will work with the center of excellence to help nations in three main areas: first, development of cyber defense strategies, second, critical infrastructure protection planning and third, cyber defense posture assessments,” Carter said at a press conference in Tallinn, Estonia with the defense ministers of the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania).The…

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