President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser says the United States will seek to work with Israel and other countries to develop new ways to counter cyber attacks.
Thomas Bossert, assistant to the president for homeland security and counter-terrorism, said Monday that a US-Israeli working group would meet this week to discuss cooperation on cyber security.
Representatives of the State Department, Homeland Security and the FBI will sit down with their Israeli counterparts for the meeting, Reuters reported.
“These high level meetings represent the first step in strengthening bilateral ties on cyber issues following President Trump’s visit to Israel” last month, Bossert said at a cyber security conference in Tel Aviv.
“The agility Israel has in developing solutions will innovate cyber defenses that we can test here and bring back to America. Perfect security may not be achievable but we have within our reach a safer and more secure…