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With New Automated Cyber Threat Sharing System, DHS Sees Opportunities To Get Ahead Of Adversaries

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, April 1st, 2016

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With New Automated Cyber Threat Sharing System, DHS Sees Opportunities To Get Ahead Of Adversaries

Dr. Phyllis Schneck, deputy under secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications at DHS. Schneck is the department's chief cyber security official. Photo: DHS

Development of advanced analytics that sort through Internet traffic looking for anomalies, even better reputation scoring of web links, and the potential for voluminous amounts of cyber threat data to be examined using a new automated information sharing system within and between the federal civilian government and private sector is creating new opportunities to take cyber security to a level that could put it ahead of cyber attackers and hackers, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told Defense Daily.“So…

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