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800-171 is the government’s chosen cybersecurity standard for protecting controlled unclassified information (CUI) and is the standard is required by a number of government departments and by private industry as a matter of contract for protecting sensitive unclassified information. Learn more about this new version of the standard here.
Google Adds Android Privacy Feature
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