The Defense Department is making heavy cuts in the uncertain budget environment, but it is investing in cyber teams and initiatives to tackle a problem brought into stark relief by National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowdon--the critical importance of information, the deputy secretary of Defense said. “Job one for us has to be defending our own networks,” Ashton Carter said at the Aspen Security Forum yesterday. The fact that Snowden was able to find and release data was a…
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