{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.rounds.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rounds-opening-statement-at-cybersecurity-subcommittee-hearing", "Rounds Opening Statement at Cybersecurity Subcommittee Hearing", "2018-11-14", "2018", "2018-11", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "Mike Rounds", "R000605", "www.rounds.senate.gov", "rounds", "https://www.rounds.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Cybersecurity Subcommittee, today delivered opening remarks at a hearing on the private sector perspective on the Department of Defense\u2019s (DoD) cybersecurity acquisition and practices.\n\n\u201cThe Department\u2019s cybersecurity acquisition is slow, decentralized and often overly reliant on the National Security Agency\u2019s product evaluation and indigenous production,\u201d said Rounds in his opening remarks. \u201cAnd, because of this, the department\u2019s capabilities often pale in comparison to the best available in the private sector. While we have confidence that the department will bolster its cybersecurity in due time, we believe that this improvement could come as a result of improved cooperation with private sector cybersecurity companies and reconfiguration of the department\u2019s cybersecurity capabilities to better match the state-of-the-art offerings in the private sector.\u201d\n\nRounds\u2019 remarks, as prepared for delivery:\n\nThe Cybersecurity Subcommittee meets this afternoon to receive testimony on the Department of Defense\u2019s cybersecurity acquisition and practices from the private sector.\n\nOur witnesses are:\n\nMr. Dmitri Alperovitch, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, CrowdStrike Inc.;\n\nMajor General John Davis, U.S. Army (Retired), Federal Chief Security Officer, Palo Alto Networks;\n\nMr. Francis Landolf, Principal, Core Consulting, LLC; and\n\nMr. Ronald Nielson, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Parsons Corporation.\n\nEvery single day, adversaries attack the Department of Defense through cyberspace, attempting to gain critical information about our ongoing operations, weapon systems and servicemembers.\n\nThese attacks are only as successful as the department\u2019s cybersecurity capabilities and practices allow them to be.\n\nAnd to its credit, the department possesses many extremely effective operators, program suites and mitigation tools to protect its networks and computing infrastructure.\n\nHowever, the department\u2019s cybersecurity and cybersecurity operations are decentralized, which means that certain DoD components exhibit better cybersecurity than others.\n\nIn other words, the department has produced pockets of excellence within the DODIN (Department of Defense Information Network), but opportunities remain for the department to improve its cybersecurity capabilities and practices across the enterprise.\n\nFor example, the department\u2019s centralized cybersecurity operators, the Defense Information Systems Agency, often lack visibility into networks across the department.\n\nFurther, the department\u2019s cybersecurity operators\u2014including CYBERCOM\u2019s cyber protection teams and the thousands of IT/cybersecurity specialists maintaining the department\u2019s networks\u2014are not particularly well-integrated with each other or with the cybersecurity capabilities used across the department.\n\nThe department\u2019s cybersecurity acquisition is slow, decentralized and often overly reliant on the National Security Agency\u2019s product evaluation and indigenous production.\n\nAnd, because of this, the department\u2019s capabilities often pale in comparison to the best available in the private sector.\n\nWhile we have confidence that the department will bolster its cybersecurity in due time, we believe that this improvement could come as a result of improved cooperation with private sector cybersecurity companies and reconfiguration of the department\u2019s cybersecurity capabilities to better match the state-of-the-art offerings in the private sector.\n\nWe hold this hearing today to find out how the department and Congress can achieve these advances. We look forward to our witness\u2019 commentary on questions to include:\n\nWhere are the department\u2019s cybersecurity capabilities, architecture and operators lacking as compared to the cybersecurity leaders in the private sector?\n\nWhat capabilities can the private sector provide to fill these gaps?\n\nAnd how are the department\u2019s acquisition processes and cybersecurity policies failing its cybersecurity?", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:10:16Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.rounds.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rounds-opening-statement-at-cybersecurity-subcommittee-hearing"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9291230235248804, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}