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Should NSA and Cyber Command have separate leadership?

  • Written by Stuart Madnick, Professor of Information Technology and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The National Security Agency is the nation’s digital spying organization. U.S. Cyber Command is a military unit focused on cyberwarfare. Does it make sense for one person to lead them both at the same time?

That has been the case since Cyber Command’s...

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