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Preparing for the Future: An Assessment of Emerging Cyber Threats

Testimony by Robert K. Knake

October 22, 2019

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Robert K. Knake testifies before The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection of the Committee on Homeland Security on how the technology landscape may change in the next five years and what that may mean for emerging cyber threats.

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