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U.S. Government Cybersecurity Ranks 16th Out of 18 Industry Sectors

August 29, 2017

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The U.S. state and federal government’s cybersecurity standing is ranked 16th of 18 industry sectors in a new report. This is a very small improvement on last year’s comparable position, which was 18th out of 18; but it still paints a grim picture of public sector readiness to fight cybercrime and cyber espionage.

The 2017 U.S. State and Federal Government Cybersecurity report (PDF) was just published by SecurityScorecard, a firm that seeks to help business manage third- and fourth-party risk (the supply chain). It does this by collecting and analyzing subject data through its own data engine, ThreatMarket — which uses 10 categories such as web applications, network security, DNS health, patching cadence and what it calls ‘hacker chatter’.

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