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With Stimulus Funding, CISA Developing Requirements For Deploying Endpoint Detection Tools

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, May 12th, 2021

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With Stimulus Funding, CISA Developing Requirements For Deploying Endpoint Detection Tools

New funding recently provided by Congress for cybersecurity efforts as part of a larger COVID-relief package is accelerating work underway and also being put toward requirements development to bring cyber threat detection and response capabilities to endpoints, an official with the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said on Wednesday. There is a focus now on endpoint threat detection and response and CISA is working within the agency and with other federal agencies on those requirements…

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