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Defense Firms Pursue Cyber-Security Work
By August Cole and Siobhan Gorman
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Some intelligence officials worry the government's clunky contracting system will end up awarding contracts to familiar big companies that lack the highly skilled technicians who gravitate toward smaller firms. Contractors also need to watch their own network security, said Tom Kellermann, a vice president at Core Security Technologies, citing a Verizon report last year that found 39% of cyber breaches implicated contractors and other third parties.
Source: Wall St. Journal
