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Heritage Report Pushes Aggressive Private Sector Cyber Defenses

Monday, May 8th, 2017

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Heritage Report Pushes Aggressive Private Sector Cyber Defenses

A Heritage Foundation report released last Friday supports allowing private U.S. actors to take more aggressive active cyber defensive actions.The report, “Next Steps for U.S. Cybersecurity in the Trump Administration: Active Cyber Defense,” by Paul Rosenzweig, Steven Bucci, and David Inserra said the U.S. government’s failure to provide adequate cyber protection and deterrence for private sector organizations is pushing them to consider taking more active defensive measures.“The private sector may wish to take actions that go beyond protective software, firewalls,…

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