Cyber culture

Culture, not technology, DoD's latest big cyber push

Cyber strategies, cyber implementation plans, cyber mission forces – whether it's plans, policies or people, the Defense Department is all over the cyber domain. But for all the focus on governance and the technologies for offense and defense, there's another major area Pentagon officials must deal with: a cultural change across the department.

It turns out, defining and implementing a "cyber culture" may not be as easy as creating doctrine and training troops. That's a chief reason Defense Secretary Ash Carter, along with other DoD officials, are focusing on culture as part of a new DoD Cybersecurity Culture Compliance Initiative, or DC3I, unveiled in a recent internal memo.