Solarium commissioners: Congress needs to review Pentagon’s cyber forces, private sector info-sharing capabilities

Members of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission are urging Congress to consider expanding the Pentagon’s Defend Forward strategy to review the current state of military cyber capabilities and incorporate new ways to engage with the defense industrial base.

“The conventional and nuclear technologically advanced military capabilities that form the bedrock of America’s military advantage also create cyber vulnerabilities that are our adversaries could exploit to their own benefit,” commissioner Patrick Murphy said at a hearing Thursday in a House Armed Services...