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Federal shutdown deals blow to already hobbled cybersecurity agency

  • Written by Richard Forno, Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageThe federal cybersecurity agency is crippled by layoffs and shutdown furloughs.The Conversation, CC BY-ND

As the United States experiences its latest government shutdown, most of the daily operations of the federal government have ground to a halt. This includes much of the day-to-day work done by federal information technology and cybersecurity...

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