NSA Opens A New Center To Work With Private Industry To Combat Cyber Threats

 

CBS: Secretive NSA opens doors to new "collaboration center" as cyberthreats mount 

Fort Meade, Maryland — One of the most notoriously secretive U.S. intelligence agencies has opened a new facility that it hopes, uncharacteristically, will welcome plenty of outside visitors. 

While most of the National Security Agency's (NSA) outposts are closed-off, highly restricted spaces, the agency's newly launched Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, located a few miles outside its main campus in Fort Meade, Maryland, is meant to serve as a gathering point for government and private sector cybersecurity experts to exchange information about hacking threats from adversaries in real time.  

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Update #1: Hush-Hush NSA Lifts Veil on How Businesses Help Fight Hacks (Bloomberg)  

Update #2: Amid big hacks, U.S. spy agency touts collaboration center with private industry (Reuters)  

WNU Editor: This is long overdue.