New audit finds DOD disregarding some cyber vulnerabilities while red teams can't meet mission requests

By Justin Doubleday / March 17, 2020 at 2:45 PM
A new audit is again pointing to the Defense Department's shortcomings in cybersecurity, reporting DOD components did not always mitigate vulnerabilities or plan to address them in a variety of systems, while the department's cyber red teams are not meeting mission requests due to increased demand for their services. In a redacted March 13 DOD inspector general's "Results in Brief" document released today , auditors summarize the finds of a recent audit that followed up on a December 2012 report,...

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