Some of the biggest cyber risks to the military don’t start inside government networks
Some of the biggest cyber risks to the military don’t start inside government networks
Publish Date: 2026-05-20 15:41:00
Source Domain: federalnewsnetwork.com
Terry Gerton The Pentagon has invested heavily in cyber defenses, but this new effort with DC3 puts partnership with industry at the center of its engagement. Why is right now the right time to expand the partnership agreements?
Terry Kalka The partnership agreements we have with industry are key to an exchange of cyber threat information that is not available from commercial sources. And at a time when we are looking to strengthen the defense of our arsenal of freedom, we are eager to extend this partnership out across the defense industrial base to the maximum extent possible.
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Terry Gerton What sort of threats are you seeing, if you can share them in an unclassified way, that motivate this higher concern?
Terry Kalka If you look at what is publicly available and what is impacting industry and critical infrastructure, you will find that the defense industrial base is not exempt from any of those types of things. So whether we’re talking about the nation-state threats of our primary competitors, or whether we’re looking at ransomware driven by cybercrime actors, the defense industrial base faces the level of threat. And because of where they are in the ecosystem, in some cases they face a very unique set of threats where an adversary is looking for information that perhaps properly belongs to the Department of War, and may not find it within a Department of war environment, but can sort of start to poke and prod through an industrial environment to look for it. Our supply chain is our strength and we need to do everything in our power to help them defend themselves.
Terry Gerton This new announcement opens up the defense Industrial base Cybersecurity Program to new partners, what is actually changing with this new announcement for both companies and for the government, as you think about the sharing of information?
Terry Kalka So there are two things that changed in the last couple of years that I would like to highlight because there was a lot of…
