Obama's Executive Order Aimed at Enhancing Security of Federal Data Access

President Obama has issued an executive order aimed at better securing data stored by federal agencies. Some industry watchers believe the move is a response to the whistle-blower organization WikiLeaks, which has published information provided by Bradley Manning , a relatively low-level Army intelligence officer who last year downloaded thousands of documents from secure networks and handed them over to WikiLeaks. Obama's order focuses on creating committees and task forces to oversee access to classified networks and government data.

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