With the increase of available equipment that connects to the Internet, the military needs to address the associated cybersecurity risks. The Defense Department is lacking a comprehensive strategy of how to harness these so-called IoT devices, which could be based on existing cybersecurity frameworks, advised experts at an October 31 AFCEA Quantico-Potomac Chapter luncheon.
The chapter’s 7th annual Cyber Security event, held at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico, included moderator Ray Letteer, compliance branch deputy chief for cybersecurity and senior information security official, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, and panelists: Jean-Paul Bergeaux, Guidepoint Security; Will Bush, security controls assessor, Marine Corps System Command, U.S. Marine Corps; and Lisa Lee, intelligence chief information officer, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, U.S. Marine Corps.
“[It is far from] the 1980’s, with a V-86 processor, a hardrive, two or three floppy disks and a modem,” Letteer said. “With IoT, we are now getting into other computing constructs.” The key question is how the DOD can adjust, respond and address the cybersecurity issues related to the use of IoT devices,…
