Federal CISO Chris DeRusha says using weak forms of identity authentication is like "driving without seatbelts."
Lily Zeleke, the deputy chief information officer for the information enterprise at DoD, said the move to the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability is as much about taking advantage of enterprise services as it is about not breaking mission outcomes.
The Defense Department has been spending an increasing amount of its budget on maintenance and support costs to keep its aging fleets of aircraft at a certain level of mission readiness. However, costs keep rising as the lifecycle of aging weapons platforms gets extended, budgets struggle to keep up with inflation ultimately raising potential risks to mission readiness.
"There are a tremendous number of links between China and Iran, and cryptocurrency is a driving force for a lot of that,” said Derek Claiborne, the director of national security initiatives at Chainalysis.
Venice Goodwine replaces Lauren Knausenberger, who departed in June, as the Air Force chief information officer.
Agencies saw a governmentwide decrease in improper payments last year, after a surge of them at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Intelligence agencies are bringing more of a top-down focus to open-source intelligence (OSINT).
Melissa Vice, the director of the Department of Defense’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program, said the 12-month voluntary pilot with defense contractors found vendors faces similar challenges as the department in securing their networks.