Pentagon Chief Information Officer John G. Grimes has put industry on notice. Tighten your internal network security, he tells a roomful of contractors. Spies are extracting drips and drabs of highly sensitive information from defense companies, and these pieces of intelligence add up to a full picture of what the U.S. military is doing, Grimes says.
He has already met with the top 20 military contractors to voice his concern. “Our networks are being bled … We’re bleeding to folks we don’t want to be bled to.”