No sooner had my coauthors and I put the finishing touches on our Harvard Business Review article that holds up the U.S. military approach to cyberdefense as a model than news stories disclosed that there had been a serious breach of the unclassified e-mail system used by employees of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. But the incident actually heavily underscores our principal point.
What the U.S. Military Has Learned About Thwarting Cyberattacks
Not even the Pentagon can stop them all.
August 13, 2015
Summary.
A hack of a Pentagon system highlights how employees can be the weakest link.
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