US intelligence targets advanced security management of virtual systems

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Network World Security Alert Oct 21, 2016 US intelligence targets advanced security management of virtual systems The advanced research arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence rolled out the Virtuous User Environment (VirtUE) program which the agency says "is looking to use the federal government's impending migration to commercial cloud-based IT infrastructures and the current explosion of new virtualization and operating system concepts to create and demonstrate a more secure interactive user computing environment than the government has had in the past or likely to have in the near future." 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