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GCHQ to protect private infrastructure from cyber attack

Stuart Sumner

08 March 2011 • 1 min read

Intelligence agency will expand its role to protect nationally important private networks from cyber attack

GCHQ, the UK intelligence agency, aims to expand its remit to defend privately owned networks from hackers. Under the plan, security teams at GCHQ would be allowed access to private networks of ...

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