VS: ”Navy Emphasizing Maritime Cybersecurity Investments”

The Navy must find innovative ways to defend and protect its assets against cyber attacks, a top service official said.

Like many companies and organizations across the world, the Navy is facing threats from both individual “lone-wolf kind of actors” and attacks from nation-states, said Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, and director of naval intelligence.

“It’s really the nation-state actors that keep me awake at night and that we have to be most concerned about,” she said at an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Potentially nefarious activities from Russia, China and Iran top the list of concerns, she added.

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