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31 January 2017

POLITICO Pro Q&A: Alejandro Mayorkas, Former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security

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Alejandro Mayorkas spoke with POLITICO about his experience at the Department of Homeland Security and what he sees as the biggest cybersecurity challenges.
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You spent a lot of time on the international side of cybersecurity. What's important about that?

I think there's a couple different aspects that come immediately to mind when discussing the importance of international relationships. First and foremost is cooperation in the form of shared resources, information-sharing and the like. Take a look, just to give one example, at Israel, which is very advanced in the cybersecurity realm not only in terms of capabilities but quite frankly organizationally as a government. They spent a great deal of time thinking about how best they could be organized, and work with the private sector, the unified effort to secure the cyberspace domain. We were able to reach an agreement with Israel on their participation in Automated Information Sharing.

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