http://www.defenseone.com/management/2015/08/carter-says-pentagon-needs-better-cyber-security-following-joint-chiefs-breach/119618/
By Kevin Baron
defenseone.com
August 26, 2015
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada – On his way to Silicon Valley, Defense
Secretary Ash Carter said a recent intrusion into a Joint Chiefs of Staff
computer network shows the Defense Department is not providing the basic
level of cyber defenses needed for the U.S. military. Now he wants help.
“That 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,” Carter said of the Joint
Chiefs breach, after receiving classified briefings during an Air Force
exercise in cyber and space defenses. “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.” The compromised Joint Chiefs unclassified email server went back
online earlier this month.
Carter said his desire to increase the military’s computer defenses is one
reason he is heading to Silicon Valley on Friday to recruit outside help.
“I’m trying there and elsewhere…to encourage interest in our nation and a
back-and-forth of people,” he said, “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.” His visit
closely follows Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work’s recent visit to the
Pentagon’s new office, called the Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental, or
DIUx, at Mountain View, Calif. Work brought the Pentagon’s top weapons
buyer, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall, as well.
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