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and dedicated personnel.
They’ll find a vulnerability, exploit In the past few months we’ve seen
it, and move onto something new new and highly dangerous threats
once the vulnerability has been emerge, like BlueKeep and Dtrack.
patched.
These threats come in many differ-
It’s important for government agen- ent forms—ransomware, malware,
cies to invest in the right people and others—and can be hard to re-
spond to without the proper
er edu-
and training.
cation..
cation
After all, it’s not machines that
adapt and adjust those policies to Agencies should encourage con-
outflank or respond to the varying sistent training and knowledge
sharing about these and other im-
tactics used by attackers.
pending threats and emphasize
It’s well-trained, knowledgeable, the need for consistent patching
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