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Cyber

State Dept. Foreign Affairs Cyber Facility Lead Pushing For Cloud Migration

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, November 3rd, 2017

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State Dept. Foreign Affairs Cyber Facility Lead Pushing For Cloud Migration

State Department's Foreign Affairs Cybersecurity Center in Beltsville, Md. Photo: State Department.

BELTSVILLE, Md. -- The lead for the State Department’s office tasked with ensuring cyber security for its employees abroad says his team won’t be affected by a shuffling of cyber priorities in a proposed department reorganization, but must remain focused on pushing for continued cloud migration.Lonnie Price, assistant director for Cyber and Technology Security within the department’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), oversees the Foreign Affairs Cybersecurity Center (FACC), which processed 7.5 billion cyber incidents and defended against 17,000 threats to…

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