{"id":22446,"date":"2019-07-18T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/07\/18\/is-industry-cyberinsecurity-dods-achilles-heel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:10:45","slug":"is-industry-cyberinsecurity-dods-achilles-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2019\/07\/18\/is-industry-cyberinsecurity-dods-achilles-heel\/","title":{"rendered":"Is industry cyber(in)security DoD\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Military leaders like to point out that the nature of warfare is unlikely to change, but the character of war \u2014 how they are fought and with what \u2014 is rapidly evolving. Physically, the United States benefits from the geographic isolation, separated from adversaries on all sides by large oceans and friendly nations, but the advent of cyber capabilities has created new attack vectors. In turn, agencies are pursuing case studies and exercises to identify best practices in less transparent, highly vulnerable sectors, such as manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The homeland is no longer a sanctuary<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the event of a conflict, it is within the realm of possibility that adversaries will try to target small to medium-sized manufacturing companies with crippling cyberattacks. In many cases, these companies provide the Department of Defense with critical services but often are so small that they don\u2019t have the wherewithal to institute enough cyber defenses against intrusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If these companies are hit with a cyberattack and unable to provide soldiers with critical services during a conflict, the U.S. military could be opening itself up to significant risks. The Defense Department, however, continues to award contracts to these smaller companies without a lot of knowledge as to their cyber resilience, their cyber posture, who they\u2019re buying from or if their networks are currently laden with malware. This supply-chain vulnerability has been an increasing focus within the DoD, namely with the under secretary for acquisition and sustainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/cyber\/2019\/06\/14\/how-contractors-can-guard-against-cyber-intrusions\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2687526.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">How contractors can guard against cyber intrusions<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Contractors, facing an increasing barrage of cyber intrusions by foreign entities, should protect themselves using traditional regulatory approaches but also new techniques such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, according to a new report from Deloitte.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the concerns DoD is grappling with, according to those familiar, are if it should award a contract to a company with a medium risk score. There would be a dilemma, for example, if a company that is one of only a few that produces a widget for a particular weapon system should be awarded a contract as the U.S. is getting ready to go to war, and that company is found to be vulnerable to a cyberattack that could potentially reduce its capacity to supply troops critical components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One way the Pentagon has explored to mitigate this problem was hosting a miniature mock-up to test solutions that can continuously monitor the networks of these small suppliers and understand if they are hit with malware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, a sponsor of the initiative, did not respond to requests for comment, there is still much to glean from the exercise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Rapid prototyping event<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, the A&amp;S office, in partnership with the Office of Small Business Programs, hosted a multiday event at a facility called DreamPort, located in Columbia, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DreamPort \u2014 run by the Maryland Innovation and Security Institute through a partnership intermediary agreement with U.S. Cyber Command \u2014 serves as a state-of-the-art facility where companies can bring in capabilities to be evaluated.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2018\/09\/07\/cyber-command-partners-for-a-cyber-prototyping-environment\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-909244318.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Cyber Command partners for a cyber prototyping environment<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">An innovation hub through U.S. Cyber Command seeks to foster greater collaboration between the government and tech firms.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For its June 18-21 rapid prototyping <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamport.tech\/event-rpe-osdics-001.php\" target=_blank>event<\/a>, DreamPort built miniature manufacturing factory networks with real-world <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/enterprise\/en-us\/security-awareness\/ransomware\/what-is-stuxnet.html\" target=_blank>programmable logic controllers<\/a> \u2014 essentially a digital computer that controls industrial and manufacturing machines \u2014 from major companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Armando Seay, the director of DreamPort, told Fifth Domain that this event set out to examine how DoD comes in with a cost-effective set of procedures and technology to get basic information about manufacturers before the department issues them contract awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main problem the government is trying to mitigate with the prototyping event, Seay said, is the prospect of smaller companies putting the United States at a disadvantage. One of the biggest problems these industrial companies have is they have no way of knowing if their networks have been compromised, Phil Neray, vice president of industrial cybersecurity at event participant CyberX, told Fifth Domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHere\u2019s a cyberattacker who\u2019s already in your network and they\u2019re scanning the network to do cyber reconnaissance. Did you detect this was going on? Or here\u2019s an attacker that\u2019s using industrial protocol in a way in which it was not designed to be used. This could indicate a cyberattack \u2014 did you detect it?\u201d Neray said, regarding the scenarios for the rapid prototyping event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMost of the firms that would be involved in this type of initiative need a way to even detect the most basic attacks. It\u2019s not even detecting super sophisticated attacks; it\u2019s detecting the most basic types of attacks and are there products that help these companies do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neray added that the NotPetya attack \u2014 a ransomware strain that hit worldwide in June 2017 and cost companies billions of dollars \u2014 was a bit of a wake-up call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s when we started seeing a real shift in awareness on the part of management teams and boards that they needed to do something about industrial cybersecurity. Because before that, and still for a lot of cyber companies, they sort of assume who would take down my plant, why would anybody go after my factory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA bunch of these pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers were taken down because they just don\u2019t have security in the plants at the level at which we\u2019ve gotten accustomed to in the IT networks. That\u2019s the big problem that we\u2019re exploring here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continuous monitoring is better than either asking companies to self-report or relying on outside auditors to get at the supply-chain cybersecurity problem, Seay contends, because organizations could feasibly be compromised the day after the audit. By using continuous monitoring tools, larger prime companies and DoD can have a better understanding of the cyber posture of smaller companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These companies really can\u2019t afford to buy tools and don\u2019t have the staff to implement them as they might not even have a \u201ccyber\u201d or IT person on the staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you look at the holistic picture, the government is still struggling with how does it handle some of the supply chain issues that the manufacturing companies [have]; are they secure in their operational technology network,\u201d John Almlof, director of alliances and business development at Nozomi Networks, which participated in the rapid prototyping event, told Fifth Domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think this is an evolutionary process. I think the first step was really this [rapid prototyping event] and there will be additional steps on how well can we diagnose or how well can we identify it \u2026 [As] the government learns more and they understand what some of the commercial vendors can provide in this area I think you\u2019ll see some of the events become more refined to try to tease out some of the capabilities that come from vendors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a government value, but also a private sector benefit to this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the things we\u2019re trying to provide, since this event was primarily targeted not just at the government but their suppliers, is to bring our own private sector experience in play here,\u201d Pete Burke, technical sales engineer at Nozomi Networks, told Fifth Domain. \u201cA lot of these guys they have government contracts but they also are commercial entities that are probably in the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The June rapid prototyping event was more of a \u201cfact-finding\u201d event than some of DreamPort\u2019s other events that have been billed along the lines of a winner-loser event, in which companies put their tools to the test to vie for top spots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phase two will be an offensive-defensive cyber exercise with full-blown nation-state cyber exploits deployed on DreamPort\u2019s internal range, which is capable of running high-end malware, such as Stuxnet and BlackEnergy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personnel associated with the event noted that, while Cyber Command did not sponsor the event, it sent representatives to observe the technologies tested with a mind toward defense and offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were able to observe emerging tools in a live test using real-world exploits in an unclassified environment. Many of these tools could provide insights into how they\u2019re used to protect oil and gas platforms in certain regions of the world, for example, which would be of significant interest to the command from an offensive perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked for a comment, Cyber Command did not provide a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense hosted a prototyping event to test tools that can monitor manufacturing company networks for cyber 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