Defense
Navy looks to build cyber resilience beyond RMF
The Navy wants to fortify its cyber resilience to keep pace with rapid software development needs, but changing workforce habits has to come first.
Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler, the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare and director of naval intelligence, called the risk management framework (RMF) process a “laborious” but necessary step to “get in the door” that doesn’t guarantee protection against evolving cyber threats.
“You’ve got to do this if you want to walk through the door,” Trussler said during a panel on cyber threats at Sea Air Space on Aug. 3. “Is that going to protect you? No, these are just kind of the known things you need to take care of; very simple.”
Trussler went on to say that once vulnerabilities from software and hardware vendors are known, the challenge is implementation across ships, planes and networked systems scattered globally.
“We do all of these things but we still don’t know. And those things get blown up when you get some intelligence that…
