- The memo of the Ministry of Defense describes a reduction in the frequency of cybersecurity training
- This despite the cyber attacks increasingly reaching military targets and infrastructure
- May report an increase in AI or automated system in the future
A newly disseminated memo from the US Ministry of War (otherwise known as the Ministry of Defense) succeeded in the relaxing of cybersecurity training, despite the reduction in razing derogations and physical appearance.
“The Ministry of War is committed to allowing our fighters to focus on their main mission to fight and win the wars of our nation without distraction,” confirms the memo. “The compulsory training of the department will be directly linked to war fights or will be consolidated, reduced in frequency or eliminated.”
MEMO also calls for military services to “automate information management systems to eliminate training requirements”, as well as reducing the controlled training of non -classified information (CUI).
Reduction of training
The US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth argued that when the staff does not train in the mission, the army is less prepared to prevent war in the future – a short -sighted point of view given that the US Air Force is currently investigating a data violation that has been believed to have been carried out by actors of the Chinese threat.
In addition to the relaxation of training requirements, the training of the privacy law should be deleted from the common military training list – which is perhaps not surprising given the rather colorful HegSeth file with the confidentiality rules.
This decision is also a change of direction compared to a few weeks earlier, when the DOD published a new strict set of cybersecurity rules for potential entrepreneurs. These new regulations have introduced three different levels of compliance depending on the sensitivity of the data they process, and companies in the running for contracts must comply to be selected.
Cyberattacks and intrusions are perhaps more prolific than ever, with more and more our daily life becoming digital.
Critical infrastructure underwent 13 attacks per second in 2023, and this number only increases – and with a human error always the main point of intrusion in the vast majority of cases, reducing cybersecurity training for anyone with national security links is an incredibly risky decision by the Secretary of Defense.
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