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Cyber

White House, DHS Planning ‘Cyber Security Moonshot,’ First Study Set For November

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, September 7th, 2018

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White House, DHS Planning ‘Cyber Security Moonshot,’ First Study Set For November

Jeanette Manfra, Assistant Director for Cybersecurity with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: Department of Homeland Security

Department of Homeland Security and White House technology officials are working on a “cyber security moonshot” effort to fix lagging digital security issues in the face of growing adversarial cyber threats with a first study on the plan due in November.Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary at DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate, and Grant Schneider, the federal chief information security officer, told attendees at a Billington cyber summit Thursday the plan would focus on bettering governance of the Internet and engaging…

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