Lynn Discusses Cybersecurity Cooperation With Canadian Leaders

Source: Jim Garamone, United States Department of Defense.

OTTAWA, June 14, 2010 – U.S. and Canadian servicemembers are working side by side in defense of North America and fighting side by side in defense of freedom in Afghanistan. Now officials want to expand that cooperation to the cyberworld.

Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III is in the Canadian capital to discuss ways the two nations – already the closest of allies – can cooperate to defend critical computer networks and cyber infrastructure.

Lynn said the cyber threat to the United States and Canada is real and growing, and affects national and economic security.