NSA launches new cyber defense directorate

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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, 2019

The 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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