{"id":138931,"date":"2022-05-04T11:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/pentagon-finds-hundreds-of-cyber-vulnerabilities-among-contractors"},"modified":"2022-05-04T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:02:18","slug":"pentagon-finds-hundreds-of-cyber-vulnerabilities-among-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/pentagon-finds-hundreds-of-cyber-vulnerabilities-among-contractors","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon finds hundreds of cyber vulnerabilities among contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-finds-hundreds-of-cyber-vulnerabilities-among-contractors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The program] has long since recognized the benefits of utilizing crowdsourced ethical hackers to add defense-in-depth protection to the DoD Information Networks,\u201d Melissa Vice, interim director of the vulnerability disclosure program, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Vice added that the pilot was intended to identify whether similar critical and high-severity vulnerabilities existed for small-to-medium-cleared and non-cleared defense-industrial base companies with potential risks for critical infrastructure and the U.S. supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>Which contractors were involved was not disclosed. The campaign launched in April 2021 with 14 participating companies and 141 publicly accessible assets to examine. Interest quickly ballooned; 41 companies and nearly 350 assets were eventually admitted. The <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/bulletins\/gd\/USDODDC3-316004c?wgt_ref=USDODDC3_WIDGET_2\" target=\"_blank\">results<\/a> were announced May 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[The program] has long since recognized the benefits of utilizing crowdsourced ethical hackers to add defense-in-depth protection to the DoD Information Networks,\u201d Melissa Vice, interim director of the vulnerability disclosure program, said in a statement. Vice added that the pilot was intended to identify whether similar critical and high-severity vulnerabilities existed for small-to-medium-cleared and non-cleared [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}