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The co-chair of a commission that will make cyber security recommendations to the next president said there needs to be a debate whether private companies should be allowed to actively defend their information networks against cyber attacks.“We must also consider proposals to permit the private sector to engage in active defense of their own networks,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), said on Monday at a cyber crime event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which is sponsoring the…
