By Loren Thompson
China’s New Year celebration last month wasn’t a holiday just for the Chinese. It was also a brief respite for the thousands of specialists who defend America’s military and intelligence networks, since the volume of cyber attacks always seems to fall off when the Middle Kingdom is having a holiday.
However, nobody engaged in the Pentagon’s twilight struggle for dominance of cyberspace is in a celebratory mood, because after four years of ratcheting up spending on better defenses, military information networks remain vulnerable to exploitation, disruption, and outright destruction. In fact, the Department of Defense may actually be losing ground in the cyber struggle according to a January report by the Pentagon’s head of testing, which noted a lack of preparedness and deterioration of standards in network defenses.
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