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DHS, DoD Officials Say New Cyber Security Partnership Bearing Results

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

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DHS, DoD Officials Say New Cyber Security Partnership Bearing Results

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

A recent agreement between the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security on better detailing roles and responsibilities in protecting the homeland from cyber threats and improving the sharing of related information is already paying dividends and is helping to close to uncover potential security gaps, officials from the departments said on Wednesday.“The good thing about what we’re going through right now is that it’s not theoretical, we’re actually going through real world scenarios and we’re seeing results not just at…

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Unmanned Systems

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