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Homeland Security

CISA Putting More Focus On Local Governments And Smaller Businesses

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, October 3rd, 2019

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CISA Putting More Focus On Local Governments And Smaller Businesses

Jeanette Manfra, Assistant Director for Cybersecurity with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: Department of Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security is honing its focus on how it helps state and local governments and small and medium businesses in the area of cyber security amid a number of recent ransomware attacks and continued threats to critical infrastructures, an official with the department’s cyber security agency said on Wednesday. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will soon release a “set of cyber essentials” that will be targeted at these “communities,” many of which don’t have a lot…

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