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SASC Wants DoD to Have Own Capability to Thwart Zero-Day Cyber Attacks

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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

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Rather than having to rely on the intelligence community as is currently the case to defend against unforeseen cyber attacks, a Senate panel is telling the Defense Department it needs to have its own capabilities for discovering these 'Zero-Day' attacks. In a report accompany its mark-up of the FY '12 DoD Authorization Bill, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) says that advanced discovery capabilities developed within the National Security Agency (NSA) over the years are unlikely to be shared widely…

Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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Congress

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