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Frequent hand washing has become the new zeitgeist. But cybersecurity hygiene might still be the longer term concern. The Defense Department has not one but three cyber hygiene initiatives. But they’re incomplete and no one is reporting what’s going on. That’s according to research by the director of defense capabilities and management issues at the Government Accountability Office, Joe Kirshbaum. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain.
Tom Temin: Joe, good to have you back.
Joe Kirshbaum: Good morning, Tom.
Tom Temin: So you looked at the cyber hygiene efforts at the Defense Department. And just to clarify, these are not cybersecurity efforts by the network operations and the CIO staff, but this is what they want their people to do to keep bad things from coming in. Correct?
Joe Kirshbaum: Correct. And your your analogy about hygiene hand washing is very apt. One of the things that we found right off the bat was even though DoD leadership used that term hygiene, there was an incomplete understanding of what…
