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Flynn: Hill, Public Need To Support More Cyber Investments

Julie Samuel

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

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A top intelligence official said the U.S. government needs to shift resources from traditional warfare systems to those that counter cyber attacks, but lamented the public and Congress may not quickly embrace such a change. “Absolutely, we have to be thinking in that direction,” Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the U.S. director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said yesterday at a Cybersecurity Symposium at the University of Rhode Island. “Now, you bring it back to reality, the practical reality of…

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