A Russian official says that the United States and Moscow are negotiating to set up a joint cybersecurity working group.
Andrey Krutskikh, a top adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin on information security, was cited in Moscow’s RIA news agency on Thursday as saying that talks on the joint group were ongoing.
President Trump raised eyebrows when he said following a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, that the two had discussed setting up “an impenetrable cybersecurity unit” to protect against hacking related to elections.
After receiving broad criticism, Trump walked back the statement, saying it “can’t happen.”
Last week, a White House official told reporters that the unit could be pursued in the future but indicated that it would be meant to start a dialogue about norms in cyberspace and would not involve sharing intelligence.
“What was broached at that [Group of 20] conversation, as I understand it, was an opportunity to continue a dialogue — one that had in the past existed between the two countries, and I think one that we could pursue in the future with the appropriate reservations and the appropriate expectations, that we at least start with what is acceptable behavior in cyberspace and what norms and expectations that we’ll have moving forward,” White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday.
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US and Russia are working on joint cyber security group that Trump said "can't happen" https://t.co/RN9ox53qMR pic.twitter.com/uI5RHmHRbI
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What a convoluted nonsense statement that was.
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