Cyber Threat U.S. Spy Agency Collaborates with Private Sector to Counter Threat

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The U.S. National Security Agency, which is renowned globally for its secrecy, on Tuesday opened its arms to the private sector with the aim of strengthening relations and learning about hacking campaigns from the U.S. firms that are repeatedly targeted by hacking groups. 

“I think it is really important for NSA to take a stance where we are engaging and figuring out how to make the environment more secure and everyone is learning from the lessons of the past,” he said at a media roundtable,” said NSA Director of Cybersecurity Rob Joyce.

The U.S. law denies NSA from accessing American computer networks, so the agency hopes that increasing partnerships with defense, technology, and telecommunications companies will provide insights the agency can’t get on its own, he further added. However, he denied disclosing the name of the companies the NSA is working with and didn’t expand on what information private companies would share with the agency. 

The NSA’s publicity tour comes after a series of high-profile hacks over the last year, including a massive cyberattack that penetrated numerous federal agencies and another that crippled a major U.S. gas pipeline. 

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