Mark Pomerleau
The status quo will no longer be accepted as the Trump administration moves to combat adversaries in the digital world, the Defense Department’s acting chief information officer said Thursday.
“We are at war in a non-kinetic sense … You have a president, what the message has been very clearly is the way we’ve been doing things isn’t working. It’s broken. This is your time. Come out of your shells. The art of the possible is before you now,” Katie Arrington said at the DOD Cyber Workforce Summit. “You have time to say this regulation, this policy, has been handcuffing you from doing what is needed and necessary to protect the United States … Our adversaries are not waiting for us to pass a new policy.”
Arrington — who was selected as the Pentagon’s chief information security officer, reprising that role from the first Trump administration, and is now serving as the acting DOD CIO — warned that not only have many Americans become complacent about cybersecurity, but adversaries know U.S. networks and will exploit them.
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