NSA Cyber Chief Says Companies Are Losing Ground Against Adversaries

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/nsa-cyber-chief-says-companies-are-losing-ground-against-adversaries-11544548614

By Angus Loten
The Wall Street Journal
Dec. 11, 2018

NEW YORK -- Are we winning the war to protect data? Not according to Rob 
Joyce, the National Security Agency's senior adviser on cybersecurity 
strategy. Corporate leaders face increasing challenges in safeguarding 
their online systems and data, he said.

"The trend is going the wrong way," Mr. Joyce told security experts and 
other enterprise information-technology officials Tuesday at the WSJ Pro 
Cybersecurity Executive Forum in New York.

"It's not getting better, it's getting worse," he said, urging firms to be 
more vigilant in protecting applications, systems and infrastructure.

While some security threats have been known for a long time, responding to 
them has been a slow process, he said.

"We've put a lot of important things into technology and we may not have 
done everything necessary to protect that technology," he said, citing 
baked-in security features, stronger passwords and other measures.

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