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Dep it involved in election security efforts?
Well, its mission includes working
to strengthen America’s ability
to withstand and respond to
as
as
supporting the global mis-
sions of combat command-
ers and defending the Pen-
tagon’s information network.
he quarters at Ft. Meade, MD. The
agencies have what’s called
a r NSA is also CYBERCOM’s
commander.
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g who are interested in working in cy-
bersecurity but who are also intrigued by
d wor initially set up to have a defensive pos-
A the New York Times reported earlier this
da of of berattacks were expected to evolve into
y e a c s o t f i t y l ge th, th, working in conjunction with the NSA
. rov tion that foreign hackers would
interfere with the vote thankfully
proved unwarranted. Indeed,
the federal Department
of Homeland Security’s
Cybersecurity & Infra-
structure Security
cla election was “the most
n tory.” One reason for that
great result was efforts made
by the U.S. Cyber Com-
mand (CYBERCOM), the
Pentagon’s main cyber-
security unit, in conjunc-
tion with the National
Security Agency (NSA), to
harden defenses of voting
systems nationwide and to dis-
rupt foreign threats to the vote.
CYBERCOM, which is only 11 years old,
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