Pentagon's cyber posture review driving new investments in security, potentially AI and machine learning

By Justin Doubleday / November 1, 2018 at 3:18 PM
A recently completed review identified numerous gaps in the military's cyber posture and is now driving the Pentagon toward new investments in cybersecurity, including those featuring artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Defense Department's new cyber strategy, which states the military will defend forward in day-to-day competition with adversaries like Russia and China, was borne in part out of the Pentagon's first cyber posture review. The review was mandated by Congress and modeled after other posture reviews, such as those...

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