Army advisor cites need to prioritize cybersecurity efforts around ‘power projection’ installations

The Army should prioritize insulating its “power projection” infrastructure against cyberattacks, given that the service will not have the funding to protect all its systems in the cyber domain, Terry Mitchell, the principal cyber adviser to the Army secretary and chief of staff, said Dec. 2.

Many of the Army’s systems were built before modern cybersecurity requirements were created, and it would cost too much to upgrade all of them, he said during a speech at the Association of Old...