"New Threats Compel DOD To Rethink Cyber Strategy"

On January 19, 2010, Defense Systems cited Booz Allen's Thomas Fuhrman about information assurance challenges in the DOD.

"The tradecraft of the attackers has really advanced in the last few years," said Fuhrman. "And they're also very agile. There's a whole range of threats, but the threats that matter — where we see exfiltration, threats of compromising national security command and control systems — this comes from a very sophisticated adversary." And based on what analysts see, he said, "They respond to fixes we implement very rapidly."

Fuhrman added that there is the proliferation of tools that make it easier for adversaries to attack DOD and other networks. "So you expand the range of people who are in this space by the availability of the tools to the work," said Fuhrman.