Policy
New National Cyber Strategy: Raise Defensive Baseline for Critical Infrastructure
The White House wants to get electrical systems, gas pipelines, water treatment plants, and more up to a consistent level of cybersecurity.
Defense Systems
How The Navy Trains Its Info Warfare Officers Needs Work
The goal is to expand the training into virtual and synthetic environments in the next few years.
Ideas
One Year In: What Are The Lessons from Ukraine For The Future Of War?
From drones to network attacks to the LikeWar of social media, the conflict marks a turning point from old to new.
Science & Tech
Navy ‘Setting the Pace’ Among Services, Principal Cyber Advisor Says
Chris Cleary touts prototype tools and readies a new cyber plan.
Science & Tech
Can a New Information-Security Approach Save the Navy $1B a Year?
The CIO touts his Cyber Ready plan for continuous vulnerability monitoring.
Policy
Expect Pentagon's Cyber-Worker Strategy 'Any Day Now'
Plan aims to attract smart, effective people, in part by reducing education and certification requirements.
Policy
The Pentagon Has Unimplemented Cyber Recommendations from 2012
A new report from the Office of Inspector General points out longstanding unmet requests.
Defense Systems
Tougher Cybersecurity Rules May Be More than a Year Away—But Don’t Wait to Get Ready
Contractors should prepare for independent checks on their data systems, and maybe more reporting requirements as well.
Threats
To Protect Satellites, Secure Your Networks, Chief of Space Ops Says
Cyber attacks can undermine space-based capabilities, Gen. Chance Saltzman said.
Science & Tech
Army's Digital-Transformation Chief to Step Down
After two years of ushering the service toward cloud-based services, CIO Raj Iyer will leave "over the next several weeks."
Threats
Foreign Meddling in US Elections Affects Allies’ Trust, Study Finds
When respondents were told that American democracy wasn’t working reliably, they lost faith in the U.S. commitment to partnerships.
Policy
New Ranking Member Could Shake up a Key Senate Oversight Committee
A new Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee wants the body to "reassert itself."
Science & Tech
Musk Has Reduced Twitter’s Ability to Spot Foreign Disinformation, a Former Data Scientist Says
Staff layoffs are just one way the new CEO has undermined the platform’s three-legged approach to the problem.
Policy
Omnibus Spending Bill Would Ban TikTok on Government Devices
Congress may need to do more to ward off the national-security threat of the Chinese-made video app, one senator says.
Defense Systems
A Wireless Intelligence Community ‘On The Horizon,' Official Says
Getting there is a matter of appropriately protecting data and tweaking policies to allow for wireless secret- and top-secret networks.
Defense Systems