National Security Council sets up coordinated government response to SolarWinds hack

Published December 15, 2020 10:42pm ET



The National Security Council announced the establishment of a Cyber Unified Coordination Group to deal with the massive cyberattack believed to have been conducted by foreign hackers that has rattled the U.S. government as well as organizations around the world.

“Pursuant to Presidential Policy Directive-41 (26 July 2016) and its Annex, a Cyber Unified Coordination Group has been established to ensure continued unity of effort across the United States Government in response to a significant cyber incident,” NSC spokesman John Ullyot said in a statement on Tuesday. “The UCG process facilitates continuous and comprehensive coordination for whole-of-government efforts to identify, mitigate, remediate, and respond to this incident. The highly-trained and experienced professionals across the government are working diligently on this matter.”

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