From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500 AM
By Jared Serbu
A new Pentagon report on the Defense Department’s major systems includes some worrying assessments of DoD’s overall cybersecurity posture: A troubling proportion of its IT systems appears to be vulnerable to low- or intermediate-level hackers, leaving aside the advanced persistent threats everyone’s worried about.
The annual report from the Office of Operational Test and Evaluation is most known for its summarized assessments on the performance of dozens of individual weapons programs. But a separate eight-page section dedicated to cybersecurity draws some stark conclusions about DoD’s overall defensive positioning.
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