CybersecurityPentagon expends cyber networks security project
The Pentagon plans to extend a cyber defense pilot program intended to help protect U.S. defense contractors from cyberattacks to more private companies, subcontractors, and industries such as power plants
The Pentagon plans to extend a cyber defense pilot program intended to help protect U.S. defense contractors from cyberattacks to more private companies, subcontractors, and industries such as power plants, AP reports.
Other governmental agencies, such as DHS, are evaluating the program, which entails, in part, the sharing of intelligences with the private sector, AP writes.
Fox News reports that so far, the Pentagon’s counter-cyberattack program involves twenty defense contractors, and could be extended through mid-November in an effort to include more companies and subcontractors.
Data from the Defense Cyber Crime Center shows the number of investigations more than tripled over the past ten years, AP reports.
