Pentagon seeks to hold its IT users more accountable for cyber missteps

From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500AM

By Jared Serbu

The Defense Department has no shortage of regulations designed to encourage and enforce good cybersecurity behavior on its own networks. But DoD’s chief information officer said as of now, there are too few consequences for users who run afoul of those rules. That’s about to change.

DoD CIO Terry Halvorsen noted that military culture is accustomed to disciplining members who violate even the simplest of rules, but said the Pentagon has not yet found its way to apply that type of rigor to users who, for example, plug their personal devices into a government computer’s USB port.

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