Pentagon Networks at Risk Amid Remote Work Setup, Watchdog Says

A government watchdog warned that the U.S. Defense Department has failed to adequately protect its computer and information systems from “common and pervasive” cybersecurity threats, while the Pentagon on the same day announced a significant increase in its capacity for remote work during the coronavirus pandemic.

Cybersecurity initiatives at the Defense Department are “incomplete -- or their status is unknown because no one is in charge or reporting on progress,” the Government Accountability Office said Monday in a summary of a report to Congress called “DOD Needs to Take Decisive Actions to Improve Cyber Hygiene.”