Frank Figliuzzi: The Defense Dept. appears to lack the collective will or the capacity to protect our secrets.
they don’t need to see, when someone is sending an email externally that contains a sensitive attachment or when someone is printing data that’s been tagged as a company crown jewel. These alarm bells have been in place for years in the corporate world, even for, and it’s time for the Defense Department to figure out how to set its own alarms. The Pentagon needs to act more like an agile business and less like an aging battleship adrift at sea.
What the Pentagon should not do is stop recruiting 20-somethings into IT and cyber jobs. Teixeira’s arrest has prompted many to ask why someone so young was handed a critical computer systems role, but the reality is that thisacross the military. This young demographic is precisely the group that possesses the essential — and perishable — skill sets needed to protect national defense information from our enemies.
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