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CISA’s Joint Defense Collaborative Focused On Ukraine War, Easterly Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022

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CISA’s Joint Defense Collaborative Focused On Ukraine War, Easterly Says

Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: DHS

A joint center stood up last summer to operationalize collaboration between the public and private sectors for the most significant cyber threats facing the U.S. has been focused on cybersecurity activities related to Russia’s war in Ukraine, leading to improved cyber defenses, the nation’s top homeland security cyber official said on Tuesday. “And because of this work, earlier this month we were able to identify nearly 140 additional vulnerabilities to add to our previously exploited vulnerabilities catalog,” Jen Easterly, the…

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