Cybersecurity
The Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Is Falling Behind
- Progress isn’t ‘outpacing’ adversaries, testing office finds
- Military ‘Red Teams’ that challenge defenses lack resources
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The U.S. military’s cybersecurity capabilities aren’t advancing fast enough to stay ahead of the “onslaught of multipronged” attacks envisioned by adversaries, the Pentagon’s combat testing office is warning.
Despite some progress in fending off attacks staged by in-house “Red Teams,” the testing office said “we estimate that the rate of these improvements is not outpacing the growing capabilities of potential adversaries who continue to find new vulnerabilities and techniques to counter fixes.”