Cybersecurity
Pentagon Slow to Protect Weapons From Cyber Attacks
- Cybersecurity hasn’t been Pentagon focus despite warnings: GAO
- Pentagon started improving security in 2014, watchdog says
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The Pentagon hasn’t made cybersecurity for its multibillion-dollar weapons systems a major focus until recently despite years of warnings, according to Congress’s watchdog agency.
“Instead, for many years,” until about 2014, the Pentagon “focused cybersecurity efforts on protecting networks and traditional IT systems, such as accounting systems, rather than weapons,” the Government Accountability Office said released Tuesday entitled: “DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities.”