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Not just money and talent: Five ways the government can get better at cybersecurity

Fedscoop: Federal agencies have made positive strides in how they approach protecting information systems in the past few years, experts said Tuesday at a D.C. CyberWeek event, but the government’s cybersecurity efforts have room for improvement in several areas.

The conversation at Georgetown University was a wide-ranging examination of the current state of public-private partnerships in cybersecurity by Meredith Burkart, a program manager at the FBI and assistant professor at Georgetown; David Fahrenkrug, director of strategic planning at Northrop Grumman and adjunct professor at Georgetown; and John Wood, CEO of the Telos Corporation.

There were five main takeaways that the panelists kept coming back to:

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