The National Security Agency’s Cyber Directorate touted its role in securing the 2020 presidential election and response to the COVID-19 pandemic in supporting vaccine protection and the Defense Department’s pivot to telework in a new report.
NSA’s Cyber Directorate, established in October 2019, released its 2020 NSA Cybersecurity Year in Review highlighting the directorate’s accomplishments in its first full year of operation Friday. The review comes as NSA and other federal agencies continue to deal with the fallout of a major hack that likely originated in Russia affecting multiple federal agencies.
Anne Neuberger, NSA’s director of cybersecurity who according to Politico is set to be named to President-elect Joe Biden’s National Security Council, wrote in a letter included in the review that connecting personal devices to enterprise networks during the pandemic has expanded the cyberattack surface. The president-elect’s transition team has not announced an appointment for Neuberger at this time.
“We surged to rapidly deliver capacity for secure telework, and provide intelligence and cybersecurity advice to protect networks used in developing and approving a coronavirus vaccine,” Neuberger wrote, adding the directorate also collaborated with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and U.S. Cyber Command to secure November’s presidential election.
In order to facilitate DOD’s pivot to telework, NSA reviewed and approved 16 solution registrations for Commercial Solutions for Classified capabilities, which the agency estimates enabled 100,000 users to telework securely, according to the review.
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