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Cybersecurity Center Planned in Montgomery County
The center is part of an effort to make Maryland the leader in cybersecurity.
By Varun Saxena, Capital News Service In an effort to fight what Sen. Barbara Mikulski described as the "new enduring war" against "hate-hackers," Maryland officials announced on Thursday, Feb. 16, a plan to create the National Cyber Center of Excellence for Cyber Security in Montgomery County. The new center will be developed in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a nonregulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Mikulski (D-MD) secured $10 million in federal funding for the initiative. Speaking at NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Mikulski stressed the seriousness of the threat posed by hackers on "not only our state secrets, but our trade secrets," and said the center will help keep digital …
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10:41 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
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