The Federal Government and Cybersecurity

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Author: Terri Harel
Created: 22 Dec, 2012
Updated: 17 Oct, 2022
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Cybersecurity has become a very important issue for the federal government to address. Threats from cyberspace affect a broad range of government organizations, from the Department of Defense, to the police force, to the Department of Energy, and risk the extraction of important classified information by hackers or hostile parties. This infographic from Fed Tech Magazine takes a look at the development of the cyberthreat.

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cybersecurity, federal government, defense

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