Hagel Wants Unclassified Sensitive Data Protected from Cyber Spying

[Lee J <lee () riskbasedsecurity com>]

http://www.nationaljournal.com/global-security-newswire/hagel-wants-unclassified-sensitive-data-protected-from-cyber-spying-20131025

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the Defense Department to
take steps to reduce cyber hackers' ability to gain access to unclassified
controlled data, according to a Thursday report from the Pentagon's American
Forces Press Service<http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121000>
.

In an Oct. 10 memo laying out the new directives, Hagel said "stolen data
provides potential adversaries extraordinary insight into the United
States' defense and industrial capabilities and allows them to save time
and expense in developing similar capabilities."

Hagel has ordered the offices of the undersecretaries of Defense for
acquisition, technology and logistics; policy; and intelligence, as well as
the head Pentagon information officer, to cooperate in developing any
needed alterations to department policy, recommendations and regulations in
order to limit unauthorized entities from gaining access to unclassified
sensitive data located on or transmitted through defense firms' computers
or networks.

"Protection of this data is a high priority for the department and is
critical to preserving the intellectual property and competitive
capabilities of our national industrial base and the technological
superiority of our fielded military systems," Hagel wrote.

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