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Jeff Duncan: “If the government spent most of its budget on just updating and modernizing IT systems, could we ever guarantee that…”

On the recordMay 25, 2016
If the government spent most of its budget on just updating and modernizing IT systems, could we ever guarantee that they would not be vulnerable to hackers and malicious code? And I think the answer to that is no.
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Jeff Duncan
Republican · South Carolina

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Duncan questions the effectiveness of government cybersecurity measures despite significant spending.

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