Deputy CIO: Pentagon Closely Eyes Insider Threats Post-Snowden

By Jordana Mishory / May 12, 2015 at 3:25 PM
The Pentagon is still sorting out its response to the Edward Snowden security breach, according to Richard Hale, the Defense Department's deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity, who said DOD is working to drive out network anonymity and more aggressively monitor its cyber systems. Hale, speaking Tuesday at a FedScoop event in Washington on information technology, said the Pentagon learned a number of lessons from the Snowden incident, primarily that "anonymity has no business in the classified networks." He...

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