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NSA launches new cyber defense directorate
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 08:36:02 +0000 (UTC)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/nsa-launches-new-cyber-defense-directorate/2019/09/30/c18585f6-e219-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html By Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post September 30, 2019The National Security Agency on Tuesday will launch an organization to prevent cyberattacks on sensitive government and defense-industry computers — with an eye also toward helping shield critical private-sector systems.
For decades the agency had a cyberdefense organization, the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), that focused on safeguarding the government’s classified and sensitive networks, as well as the private sector’s, when asked.
What is new, NSA officials said, is that the agency is hitching together under one roof threat detection, cyberdefense and future-technologies personnel. They are calling it the Cybersecurity Directorate.
“The mission of the organization is to prevent and eradicate threats,” said its director, Anne Neuberger, who reports directly to the NSA director, Gen. Paul Nakasone. “Our focus is going to be on operationalizing intelligence.”
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