NAVSEA setting up incident response HQ for fleet cybersecurity

By Justin Doubleday / March 7, 2016 at 1:29 PM
Naval Sea Systems Command is establishing an incident-response headquarters to more quickly react to the operational fleet when officers encounter a cybersecurity incident, according to a top command official. William Deligne, the executive director at NAVSEA, said the command has had some "near misses or false alarms," referring to cyber intrusions in the fleet. "We were very slow to respond," Deligne said March 2 at a naval engineering conference in Arlington, VA. "Our knowledge and our configurations from a cybersecurity...

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