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Coast Guard Releases New Cyber Strategic Outlook

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021

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Coast Guard Releases New Cyber Strategic Outlook

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The Coast Guard on Tuesday released an updated cybersecurity strategy that outlines three lines of effort amid increasing cyber threats to the nation’s maritime transportation system. The previous cybersecurity strategy, released in 2015, established cyberspace as a new operational domain for the Coast Guard, which is the Sector Risk Management agency for protecting the maritime transportation system. The new Cyber Strategic Outlook updates the previous strategy “to ensure U.S. Coast Guard readiness to conduct all missions in a contested cyberspace,…

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