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Cyber

Lax Cybersecurity Practices Lead To Biden Directive Focused On Preventing Attacks

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 13th, 2021

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Lax Cybersecurity Practices Lead To Biden Directive Focused On Preventing Attacks

A spate of recent troubling network breaches show that the nation's overall approach to cybersecurity is lacking and the nation needs to immediately put more emphasis on preventing cyber-attacks than be in incident response mode, a senior administration official said Wednesday evening just ahead of a White House release of a sweeping executive order that aims to dramatically improve the cyber defenses of the federal government while also leveraging its capacity to drive changes in the private sector’s cybersecurity efforts.…

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