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. The link for this article located at Network World is no longer available. . Biden's directive emphasizes the establishment of panels and working groups to monitor access to secure information systems.. Federal Data Protection, Executive Order, Data Access Security. . Anthony Pell
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