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The nation's largest state-run cybersecurity agency launched Monday evening at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Texas Cyber Command, created earlier this year by state law and $135 million in state funding, is led by Retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Timothy James White.

"The imperative is this state has a dependency on cyberspace in ways that you all live, but you may not necessarily know in detail or depth the circumstances the state and every other state and everywhere across the globe, has an extraordinary vulnerability," White told a crowd featuring elected leaders and UT system leaders at the university's downtown campus.

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