Pentagon Creates Cybersecurity Exchange Program With Industry

The Defense Department is sending career personnel on tours with private cybersecurity companies and bringing in specialists from those companies to gain the skills necessary to defend military networks from hackers, the Pentagon’s chief information officer said. "There’s not a time when I’m not being attacked somewhere in the world," Terry Halvorsen said. "We’re looking to industry to help us solve some specific areas." The department, for example, brought in a specialist in computer server routing technology from Cisco, Halvorsen said.