Government needs a united “team cyber,” said...
Government needs a united “team cyber,” said National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander, also commander of U.S. Cyber Command, at a Tuesday Politico event on cybersecurity. He was responding to criticisms that there should be more separation between the NSA…
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and the U.S. Cyber Command operations. He said a “dual-hatted” NSA and U.S. Cyber Command leadership is necessary for unity and threat response, and argued against splitting the roles. Alexander also backed a renewed focus on the facts of the surveillance and cybersecurity debate, criticizing former contractor Edward Snowden for hurting the “trust deficit” both within the U.S. and with its allies. “The American people must know the facts. If they knew the facts about the care that NSA goes to to protect our civil liberties and privacy,” said Alexander, they wouldn’t be so worried. NSA officials are doing exactly what they were tasked with doing under the constitutional oath they took, he said, defending the country and its civil liberties and privacy. “We take great pride in that,” he said. Alexander also said ISPs are the “first line of defense” for cyberattack, and commended them for filtering out attacks and other malware.