Bipartisan bill to rein in NSA phone data collection reintroduced

	Defense Dept. wants to rebuild trust with the tech industry | U.S. plans a cybersecurity center in Silicon Valley
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	Bipartisan bill to rein in NSA phone data collection reintroduced A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has reintroduced legislation aimed at ending the National Security Agency's bulk collection of telephone records across the country. Read More WHITE PAPER: Damballa The Cost of Malware Containment The recent Target, Home Depot, JPMorgan Chase and Sony Pictures Entertainment breaches are examples of how destructive malware can be to an organization's reputation and financial stability. Moreover, the severity and frequency of malware attacks has increased significantly in the past year. Learn More In this Issue Defense Dept. wants to rebuild trust with the tech industry U.S. plans a cybersecurity center in Silicon Valley WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems NSS Labs Web Application Firewall Comparative Analysis NSS Labs reported that NetScaler AppFirewall achieved an overall block rate of 99.8% at $1.93 TCO per protected Connection Per Second – the lowest TCO of all contenders – that placed it in the Recommended section of their Web Application Firewall Security Value Map. Learn more >> Defense Dept. wants to rebuild trust with the tech industry The Department of Defense needs to rebuild trust with Silicon Valley because it needs new technology partners to fight cyberattacks, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Damballa Failsafe for Retail Damballa Failsafe, an automated threat detection system, has protected its customers from the same POS malware variants that have breached the world's largest retailers. Learn More U.S. plans a cybersecurity center in Silicon Valley The U.S. government plans to open a cybersecurity office in Silicon Valley to encourage closer cooperation between law enforcement agencies and the private sector. Read More
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