NSA official calls for new federal cyber structure

From: FedScoop

“I’m a little biased, but I think we are the best network defenders in the nation,” said NSA’s Curtis Dukes.

By Shaun Waterman

The three-way split of U.S. cyber defense responsibilities between the National Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security and the FBI isn’t working and the new president should consider uniting elements of the three departments into a single cyberdefense agency, a senior NSA official said.

“I’m now firmly convinced that we need to rethink how we do cyber defense as a nation, possibly even going so far as that we unite pieces of those three organizations into one organization that does it on behalf of the whole government,” said Curtis Dukes, the NSA’s deputy national manager for national security systems.

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