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President-elect Trump could face cyber crisis in first 100 days

Federal Times: Cybersecurity risks — driven by foreign actors, a proliferation of exploits and poorly secured legacy infrastructure in an increasingly connected world — are intensifying, research and advisory firm Forrester reported as part of a much larger 2017 predictions guide.

The Democratic National Committee email breach saw Forrester’s previous prediction that cybersecurity would impact the presidential election become reality. There should be significant concern that nation states and hacktivists will attempt to undermine government integrity within the first 100 days of the new administration. The research group says geopolitical concerns must be factored into any firm with government business as ideologies could look to disrupt entities and exfiltrate information related to political and diplomatic operations.

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