A Pentagon task force to prevent the swiping of American secrets and improve supply chain cybersecurity will include representatives from at least seven agencies and is expected to have a long-term presence, a spokesman for the Department of Defense told Fifth Domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis created a task force Oct. 24 to protect critical technology and prevent data-exfiltration of closely guarded secrets by foreign governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is not a \u2018quick-fix\u2019 task force,\u201d Joseph Buccino, a spokesperson for the Pentagon, told Fifth Domain in an email. \u201cThe loss of technology and data critical to our national security is a long-term problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Air Force Maj. Gen. Thomas Murphy will lead the task force. He was previously served as the deputy director of command, control, communications and computers and cybersecurity for the Department\u2019s Joint Staff. He has also served as vice commander of the 24th Air Force and Air Force cyber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The task force will be staffed by \u201capproximately 25 dedicated members from the Secretaries of the Military Departments, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,\u201d and a slew of agencies across the Pentagon that include the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Defense Cyber Crime Center, and Army Counter Intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The task force will report to Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEach year, American businesses lose hundreds of billions of dollars while our military superiority is challenged,\u201d Shanahan said in a Nov. 1 statement to reporters. \u201cTogether with our partners in industry, we will use every tool at our disposal to end the loss of intellectual property, technology and data critical to our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The task force\u2019s creation comes after high-profile hacks on defense contractors, according to two current and former Pentagon officials who were briefed on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCybersecurity has not become an ingrained norm in manufacturing, especially in small and medium-sized manufacturers,\u201d read an October report from the Pentagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Pentagon task force to prevent the swiping of American secrets and improve supply chain cybersecurity will include representatives from at least seven agencies and is expected to have a long-term vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":10,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"8":{"categories":["it-cloud-report","newsletters"],"primary_category":"it-cloud-report"}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2917],"class_list":["post-16523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyber"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"TMIK4QRRJRHQRLHR5B2F7FIALY","arc_canonical_url":"\/dod\/2018\/11\/13\/pentagon-task-force-not-a-quick-fix-to-protect-critical-technology\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n