A recently completed review identified numerous gaps in the military's cyber posture and is now driving the Pentagon toward new investments in cybersecurity, including those featuring artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Defense Department's new cyber strategy, which states the military will defend forward in day-to-day competition with adversaries like Russia and China, was borne in part out of the Pentagon's first cyber posture review. The review was mandated by Congress and modeled after other posture reviews, such as those done for nuclear and missile defense. The cyber posture review is helping the Pentagon "grade ourselves" as officials implement the new strategy, according to Ed Wilson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy.
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