The Navy took some risk in permitting hundreds of thousands of service members and civilian employees to use personal laptops and cell phones at home during the COVID-19 pandemic to transact normal business, the service’s top cybersecurity official said. But allowing the use of personal devices was a calculated risk the Navy needed to take, Navy Chief Information Security Officer Chris Cleary said while speaking Monday during an online forum. “This is when really [the Navy] began to test the ‘zero trust’ model” in addressing cybersecurity threats, he said. Zero trust cybersecurity assumes no one inside or outside a network … Continue reading Pandemic Forcing Pentagon to Learn Tough Cybersecurity Lessons