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Cyber

CISA Launches Joint Cyber Defense Office; Initial Focus On Ransomware, Cloud Incidents

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, August 5th, 2021

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CISA Launches Joint Cyber Defense Office; Initial Focus On Ransomware, Cloud Incidents

Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: DHS

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday stood up a new joint cyber defense planning office aimed at unifying the insights from government and private sector partners with an initial focus on fighting ransomware and responding to incidents affecting cloud service providers. The Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) will “help us build plans against the most significant cyber threats to our nations,” Jen Easterly, director of CISA, said during a virtual presentation to the annual Black Hat computer…

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