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Private Sector Beginning To Protect Their Supply Chains, Evanina Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018

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Private Sector Beginning To Protect Their Supply Chains, Evanina Says

William "Bill" Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center. Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Nation state actors are increasingly targeting cyber vulnerabilities of supply chains but the private sector is also waking up to the threat and taking steps to protect their supply chains, a senior intelligence official said on Tuesday.Foreign countries are “being less inhibited and being more aggressive to attacking our supply chain,” William “Bill” Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said at a government symposium hosted by the cyber security company Symantec [SYMC]. He also said that, “I…

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