DISA calls for end to ‘institutional silliness’ in military cyber
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) recently released a new strategy to accelerate cyber-protection efforts for US warfighters and banish what its director, Lt Gen Robert Skinner, has described as ‘institutional silliness’.
In a public letter to accompany the 27 October launch of the strategy, Skinner set out his view of the best approach for DISA: 'Achieving our strategic vision requires consolidating and standardising IT services, adopting proactive early-warning monitoring or sensing practices, automating responses, migrating legacy services and capabilities to cloud-based offerings, and developing mobile capabilities at all classification levels so that our support to the mission is never
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