Every Day is D-Day on the Data-Breach Beaches

NextGov: In his recent keynote at the West 2018 defense conference, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan put defense-industry CEOs on notice: protect computer networks and data or lose government business.

“I think of things like safety, and cyber falls into that category—whether it’s safety or security, as being one of those things that should be uncompromising,” he said.

Shanahan’s remarks were timely and forceful. Creating an “uncompromising” network security environment is a good place to start, as is insisting on accountability and bottom-line consequences. But even all of that doesn’t go far enough.

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