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CISA Adds Viasat To Early Warning Program; Announces New Leaders

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021

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CISA Adds Viasat To Early Warning Program; Announces New Leaders

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday said that it has added Viasat [VSAT] to a program that will allow the global communications company to provide its customers with sensitive and classified cyber threat indicators provided by the agency for use in detecting and blocking malicious traffic entering or exiting customer networks. Viasat joins telecommunications providers AT&T [T] and Lumen [LUMN] on CISA’s Enhanced Cybersecurity Services (ECS) program in receiving the “government-vetted indicators of compromise,” the agency said.…

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