https://www.wsj.com/articles/nsa-cyber-chief-says-companies-are-losing-ground-against-adversaries-11544548614
By Angus Loten
The Wall Street Journal
Dec. 11, 2018
NEW YORK -- Are we winning the war to protect data? Not according to Rob
Joyce, the National Security Agency's senior adviser on cybersecurity
strategy. Corporate leaders face increasing challenges in safeguarding
their online systems and data, he said.
"The trend is going the wrong way," Mr. Joyce told security experts and
other enterprise information-technology officials Tuesday at the WSJ Pro
Cybersecurity Executive Forum in New York.
"It's not getting better, it's getting worse," he said, urging firms to be
more vigilant in protecting applications, systems and infrastructure.
While some security threats have been known for a long time, responding to
them has been a slow process, he said.
"We've put a lot of important things into technology and we may not have
done everything necessary to protect that technology," he said, citing
baked-in security features, stronger passwords and other measures.
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