Obama Is Creating a New Agency to Combat Cyberthreats

Feb 10

The $35 million cyberhub is intended to better coordinate intelligence among government agencies to ward off hacks like the one that brought Sony Pictures to its knees.

The White House on Tuesday will announce the creation of a new agency designed to combat cyberthreats and to coordinate digital intelligence among federal government agencies, an administration official said.

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center is designed to “connect the dots” among cyberthreats facing the United States, “so that relevant departments and agencies are aware of these threats in as close to real time as possible,” the official said in a statement.

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