On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies who also the director of the bipartisan Cyber Solarium 2.0, discusses when Russia is likely to wage a cyber counteroffensive against the United States and its allies, how government and industry should prepare, how the Biden administration should address the cyber workforce shortfall across the US government, update on cyber elements of the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act, and why the Navy’s officer and enlisted cyber communities needs to be designated as warfighters; and Ardalyst’s President Michael Speca discusses the importance of the joint connector software his company developed in partnership with Mandiant for Microsoft’s Sentinel, security threats, an update on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
