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Peters, Portman Want Accountability In Government For Detecting Cyber Breaches

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 18th, 2021

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Peters, Portman Want Accountability In Government For Detecting Cyber Breaches

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).

The federal government needs clear lines of authority and accountability when it comes to which agency is responsible for detecting compromises of government networks, the top Democratic and Republican senators on a Senate committee said on Thursday. “Obviously we had the most massive attack in the history of our government and it went undetected for over a year and it was detected by the private sector, not by government,” Rob Portman (R-Ohio), ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security and…

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