Advanced Cyber Security Center for IT security launched

Massachusetts has launched an Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) with the goal of bringing together the public and private sectors to build future security technologies and strategies that protect critical IT infrastructures.

Founding members and state officials, including Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley, officially unveiled the center at a launch conference, Tuesday, in Bedford, Mass.
The new ACSC is one of the first of its kind in the nation. Experts planning to collaborate at the center will come from health care, defense, financial services and the technology industries.
 “ACSC was created because there’s widespread recognition that no single organization can deal effectively with advanced cyberthreats,” said Bill Guenther, president of ACSC. “We have widespread goals of information sharing and development of integrated strategies in a cross-sector collaboration.”
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