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Manfra Looking For New Models Of Cyber Security Collaboration

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, December 22nd, 2017

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Manfra Looking For New Models Of Cyber Security Collaboration

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

Building on the lessons learned from its response to the global WannaCry ransomware attack carried out by North Korea in May, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is examining sustainable ways to enhance how it works with the private sector to prevent, respond to, and recover from cyber security incidents.The department is looking to potentially create formal mechanisms of collaboration with the private sector that go beyond the real-time sharing of cyber threat indicators, which is being done through the…

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