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CISA Services In High Demand Related To COVID Vaccine Response

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

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All the primary federal government and private sector entities involved in the government’s effort to develop, produce and distribute vaccines for COVID-19 are receiving cyber security services from the Department of Homeland Security and the intelligence community, a DHS official said on Wednesday. Once the Trump administration established Operation Warp Speed (OWS) in response to the ongoing pandemic, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) “quickly began working with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense,…

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