Leaders are taking steps to bring defense industrial and domestic partners under an umbrella of protection from cyber attacks, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Nov. 16.
“There is a huge future threat and there is a considerable current threat (from cyber attacks),” Gates said during a question-and-answer session at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council. “That’s just a reality we all face.”
Department of Defense officials already have implemented effective protections for “.mil,” he said, and are working with their partners in the defense industrial base to offer them similar protections.
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