Commentary: Marine Corps Takes Lead in Cyber Resiliency

In a commentary in National Defense magazine, Tom Burke, a senior executive with IBM’s federal security division, discusses new Department of Defense requirements for continuous cybersecurity monitoring, which were mandated in the 2017 defense authorization act. The legislation’s requirements were derived from the Marine Corps’ highly successful deployment of cybersecurity tools, which created near real-time visibility and control of the service’s laptops, desktops and servers.