The National Security Agency reportedly is working with private companies to thwart foreign digital threats aimed at interfering with the November presidential election.
The NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, which has enlisted more than 1,000 cybersecurity companies since it launched approximately four years ago, makes sure private sector partners are kept informed of foreign threats that apply to the companies’ work, The Washington Times reported.
“It’s generally the big [internet service providers], the cloud providers, the managed service providers, the cybersecurity companies, those are the portfolios that we partner with to defend the defense industrial base as well and they are also capable of generally defending our elections as well,” NSA Cybersecurity Collaboration Center Director Kristina Walter said, the Times reported. “We will work with them kind of at scale to do that.”
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