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International

September 2022

JUST IN: AUKUS Agreement Poses Cybersecurity Risk to Allies

By Stew Magnuson
The trilateral agreement that will bring U.S. and U.K. know-how to help Australia field nuclear-powered submarines will be a big, fat target for cyber spies, senior defense leaders warned.
Cybersecurity

September 2022

Government Seeking Quantum-Proof Encryption

By Meredith Roaten
Once matured, quantum technology is expected to create a shift in the defense world due to the large volume of data it will be able to quickly process. While that can lead to great advances in science and technology, it can also empower those seeking to break into encrypted communications.
Cyber

April 2022

U.S. Can’t Wait Any Longer for a Cyber Force

By Jacob Winn
In 1947, the United States acknowledged that air power had fundamentally changed warfare by creating the Department of the Air Force.
Cybersecurity

March 2022

Commentary: It’s Time to Get a Jumpstart on CMMC 2.0

By Pete Sfoglia
During the Cold War, the Defense Department wanted a network that could reroute itself around areas where nuclear weapons had been destroyed or attacked by enemy spies, so they built one and called it ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.
Infotech

March 2022

Software Supply Chain Security Turns to Risk Mitigation

By Chris Hughes
2021 was a wild year for cybersecurity, memorable for a slew of data breaches, including cloud provider outages, ransomware attacks and software supply chain compromises.
Army News

February 2022

JUST IN: New Army Acquisition Chief to Focus on Cybersecurity, Software

By Jon Harper
Improving cybersecurity and the Army’s software enterprise are top priorities for the service’s newly confirmed acquisition chief.
Cyber

February 2022

Army to Ramp Up Testing for Cyber Weapons

By Meredith Roaten
As the Army sharpens its cyber capabilities, the service is planning to increase its capacity for training and simulation at its facilities across the nation.
Cybersecurity

February 2022

Major Cyber Attacks Not the ‘New Normal'

By Gentry Lane
Cyberspace is the only warfighting domain in which daily degradation of critical assets is tolerated. This tolerance is not born out of willful indifference, but out of willful engagement in a losing battle due to lack of strategic response.
Cybersecurity

January 2022

Pentagon Releases Updated CMMC Documentation

By Susan Cassidy , Ashden Fein and Robert Huffman
The Defense Department has been increasingly focused in recent years on protecting controlled unclassified information, or CUI, within its supply chain.
Cybersecurity

January 2022

Industry — ‘Don’t Wait’ for CMMC Accreditation

By Yasmin Tadjdeh
When the Pentagon released its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 guidelines in November ...