Cyber expert: US-Israel homeland security cyber defense cooperation spiking
There is an “increasingly pressing need for effective data protection in today’s uncertain world,” and Israel has a special role in meeting this need.
By YONAH JEREMY BOB
Published: AUGUST 9, 2022
Government-to-government cooperation on homeland security cyber defense between the US and Israel is spiking, Merlin Cyber founder David Phelps has said in an interview. During Phelp’s visit to Israel following a parallel visit by the US Department of Homeland Security to the Jewish state earlier this summer, he discussed the implications of US President Joe Biden’s executive order opening new US federal cybersecurity contracts to Israeli companies, estimated to be worth $200 billion. Prior to Biden’s order, foreign companies, even from Israel, were often shut out of such sensitive US government cyber defense contracts.
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There is an “increasingly pressing need for effective data protection in today’s uncertain world,” and Israel has a special role in meeting this need.
By YONAH JEREMY BOB
Published: AUGUST 9, 2022
Government-to-government cooperation on homeland security cyber defense between the US and Israel is spiking, Merlin Cyber founder David Phelps has said in an interview. During Phelp’s visit to Israel following a parallel visit by the US Department of Homeland Security to the Jewish state earlier this summer, he discussed the implications of US President Joe Biden’s executive order opening new US federal cybersecurity contracts to Israeli companies, estimated to be worth $200 billion. Prior to Biden’s order, foreign companies, even from Israel, were often shut out of such sensitive US government cyber defense contracts.
more............. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-714280
