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US expects to help other countries cope with more varied range of cyber attacks

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General Timothy Haugh is commander of the US Cyber Command and director of the US National Security Agency.

General Timothy Haugh, commander of the US Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, expects the number of requests in 2024 for help to cope with cyber attacks to outstrip last year’s.

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SINGAPORE – The US Cyber Command expects a more diverse range of requests in 2024 from countries asking for help on cyber defence issues due to fast-evolving technology that makes it more challenging for them to keep up with the latest threats, its newly appointed chief said on June 1.

“The number of different requests is probably more important to me (as a metric) than the number of operators,” General Timothy Haugh, commander of the US Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, said in an interview on the sidelines of the 21st Shangri-La Dialogue held in Singapore.

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