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| Military leaders warn U.S. is falling behind in cybersecurity |
| 2015-09-02 |
| The United States is at risk of falling behind its enemies in the field of cybersecurity, military leaders said this week. The comments come after an unclassified server of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs was penetrated this month by a state-affiliated hacker believed to be Russian or Chinese. That incident, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Defense One, "is evidence that we're not doing as good as we need to do in job one in cyber, which is defending our own networks. "Our military is empowered by and also dependent upon networks for its effective operations. So, we have to be good, and I would say we have to be better at network defense than we are now," Carter continued. He also said he was trying "to encourage interest in our nation and a back-and-forth of people" between the public and private sectors "so that our people have the benefit of getting to know the technology, the culture, and the business practices and so forth of the commercial sector, and we draw the commercial sector into the great mission of helping us protect the nation." Speaking at a conference in Augusta, Ga., on Tuesday, Army Cyber Command chief Lt. Gen. Edward Cardon struck a similar note. "As far as we have come over the past decade, I still think we are near the beginning of what is truly possible," Cardon said. "However, the window to accomplishing our potential in a proactive manner is closing." "This is not a unique Army problem," Cardon continued. "It is a joint problem and I would argue even a national security issue." You figured that out, huh? More at link... |
| Posted by:Ebbang Uluque6305 |
| #7 Hillary doing Yoga... not there's an image to burn into your memory.... Thanks! /SARC! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-09-02 15:39 |
| #6 Ahh, you're just saying that because Hillary!'s yoga instructor has spy satellite pics of Korea. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-09-02 13:08 |
| #5 I doubt the US is falling behind. I mean how much falling behind can you do when you are dead fucking last? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-09-02 11:12 |
| #4 Cardon has an engineering background. Totally. How he fits into the cybersecurity field is beyond me. Must be a friend of Obama. |
| Posted by: Clomp Omagum5939 2015-09-02 10:52 |
| #3 How is our military these days since Obama has purged the leadership and made its goal diversity? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-09-02 09:49 |
| #2 "He who defends everything, defends nothing." If you're not going on the offensive, why bother crying for more resources (other than the usual bureaucratic empire building that solves nothing). "we meant well" |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-09-02 08:09 |
| #1 We might be falling behind but we're renaming f@#$%^!g mountains, so there's that. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2015-09-02 05:21 |