Despite efforts to tighten security to prevent such digital invasions, the military understands such breaches could still occur, which led Lynn to say the military must develop and train its cyber defenders to act in a degraded information environment.
In an unusual breach incident, the Social Security numbers, gender and dates of birth for about 22,000 retired Delaware state employees were posted for five days on a state website.
"Any conflict we see going forward is going to have some element of cyber warfare and we need to make sure that we've prepared and developed our military capabilities to sustain that," says Defense Deputy Secretary William Lynn III.
"It was a network administrator's worst fear: a rogue program operating silently, poised to deliver operational plans into the hands of an unknown adversary," Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn III writes in Foreign Affairs article.
The only state attorney general in the nation who so far has used his new power under the HITECH Act to sue a healthcare organization for HIPAA privacy and security rule violations is keeping a close eye on breaches of all sizes.
The leak of 75,000 internal military logs on the Afghanistan war is a major IT security breach, but the fact that the breach - or leak - of such magnitude occurred didn't seem to surprise many. And, two recent reports show why.
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