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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. The state counts approximately 109,000 cyber engineers. Two notable examples are Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

Attorney General described a recent takedown of a Russian government-sponsored botnet called Cyclops Blink before it was weaponized and caused damage. and foreign government agencies. government reported a significant rise in hacks perpetrated against private companies by nation-state-sponsored threat actors. 14,028, 86 Fed.