June 10, 2015
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) operates the world's largest network - a diffuse patchwork of thousands of networks - and, as you can imagine, it's a giant target for state-sponsored and other malicious cyberattackers. One of the biggest factors enabling cyberspace attacks is the fact that security simply wasn't factored in when the Internet was designed. It was intended to serve as an open system to allow scientists and researchers around the world to connect and share data quickly and easily, which it does, but at the same time it creates an Internet-security "Achilles' heel" that allows attackers to do the same.