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Cyber

New CISA Collaborative Center Bonding, Easterly Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021

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New CISA Collaborative Center Bonding, Easterly Says

Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: DHS

A recently launched public-private cyber defense center stood up in August is already strengthening its bonds and will be expanding its initial focus on ransomware and incident response to cloud providers to include some critical infrastructures, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said on Tuesday. The Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), which is hosted by CISA, also brings together key government partners that include the Defense Department, U.S. Cyber Command, FBI, National Security Agency, the Office…

Congress

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