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Several Agency CIOs Tout Cyber Security Improvements In Wake Of OPM Breach

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

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Several Agency CIOs Tout Cyber Security Improvements In Wake Of OPM Breach

A number of improvements have been and are continuing to be made to boost the cyber security posture of several federal agencies and departments following the 2015 disclosure of a major data breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), top information technology officials at these agencies told a House panel on Wednesday.At the Department of Agriculture the initial deployment of the Department of Homeland Security’s most advanced cyber threat detection and prevention capability, EINSTEIN 3 Accelerated (E3A), has been…

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Pentagon

Hegseth Acknowledges Potential $200 Billion Iran Supplemental Request, Final Figure ‘Could Move’

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