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Pentagon testing office finds problems — again — with network security system Problems keep mounting for the Joint Regional Security Stacks program. (1st Lt. Lauren Woods/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — For the fourth year in a row, the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester recommended Thursday that components stop migrating to a fraught network security system until the department proves that the system can effectively help defend against cyberattacks. The department’s Joint Regional Security Stacks program faces numerous shortfalls, continuing to provide insufficient network defense ca...

Navy CIO 2021 priorities: Don’t return to pre-COVID IT practices January 13 The Navy CIO doesn't want the service to fall back into pre-pandemic IT habits. (MC2 Kaila V. Peters/Navy) WASHINGTON — In 2020, the year marked by telework due to COVID-19, the U.S. Navy learned that it could move rapidly on IT projects. The service doubled its bandwidth in weeks. It built two new sites for its virtual private networks. It quadrupled its telework capacity. After the service did in weeks what Navy Chief Information Officer Aaron Weis said would normally take years, he wants to ensure that th...

Reports had warned about supply chain hacks January 12 The SolarWinds breach shows the risk the U.S. Department of Defense faces from supply chain threats. (cybrain/Getty Images) WASHINGTON – Twice in the last four years, the national security community warned that hacks through IT suppliers posed grave threats to defense and intelligence agencies. Last month, those warnings proved prescient after suspected Russian hackers infiltrated federal agencies through a contractor’s software. While intelligence officials said Jan. 5 the hack is an espionage campaign, confirming Russia as the...

Massive spending bill passed by Congress, sent to Trump December 22, 2020 Congress approved a one-week stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown and to give the president time to sign sweeping budgetary legislation. (Susan Walsh/AP) WASHINGTON — Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that would finally deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. Lawmakers tacked on a $1.4 trillion catchall spending bill and thousands of pages of other end-of-s...

Citing mega hack, lawmakers urge Trump to sign defense bill full of cyber protections December 18, 2020 Surrounded by Army cadets, President Donald Trump watches the first half of the 121st Army-Navy Football Game in Michie Stadium at the United States Military Academy, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, in West Point, N.Y. (Andrew Harnik/AP) WASHINGTON ― Pointing to the huge hack of U.S. government agencies disclosed this week, lawmakers of both parties are calling on President Donald Trump to sign the sweeping national defense policy bill because it contains a host of cybersecurity provisions....