Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has made significant additions to the service’s cybersecurity policy by requiring the implementation of a layered approach to cyber defense and the establishment of a departmentwide program to tackle insider threats.
Navy organizations, including the Marine Corps, “shall implement a defense-in-depth/defense-in-breadth [cybersecurity] strategy to mitigate information security risks throughout the entire life cycle of a system or network,” the memostates. It is dated May 2 but was released publicly this week.
Defense Department officials have long espoused a defense-in-depth approach to cybersecurity that mirrors the multiple barriers an assailant often faces in attacking a government building, for example. Mabus is trying to drive home the point by reminding commanders that they will be accountable for implementing defense-in-depth. For the full article click here
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