{"id":48035,"date":"2025-11-17T18:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/pentagons-acting-cio-arrington-pushes-against-complacency-in-space-cybersecurity\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:14:18","slug":"pentagons-acting-cio-arrington-pushes-against-complacency-in-space-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/pentagons-acting-cio-arrington-pushes-against-complacency-in-space-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon\u2019s Acting CIO Arrington Pushes Against Complacency in Space Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s acting Chief Information Officer (CIO) Katie Arrington tasked space cyber professionals with pushing the boundaries and not falling into complacency in a Monday morning keynote address at CyberSat in Reston, Virginia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arrington spoke Nov. 17 about a week after the Department of Defense\u2019s long-awaited Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) entered its enforcement phase on Nov. 10. CMMC assesses defense contractor compliance with existing information safeguarding requirements for federal contract information (FCI) and controlled unclassified information (CUI).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the best military in the world. What we have is complacent people in cyber,\u201d Arrington said. \u201cCMMC finally came to life after seven years. I joke she\u2019s a 48-pound baby, seven years in gestation. We did [CMMC] so that the basics got covered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arrington had no patience for CMMC naysayers, saying that CMMC was needed because the defense industrial base wasn\u2019t upholding the basics of cybersecurity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCMMC is great. You need to do more. I only did that because you weren\u2019t doing the basics,\u201d Arrington said. \u201cCMMC you may think is a pain in the butt \u2014 but if you guys did what you were supposed to do, the F-35 wouldn\u2019t look like the J-20 flying in China right now. If you guys did what you were supposed to do and lock it down, the adversary wouldn\u2019t be as far as they are.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She pushed for industry to \u201cmove at the speed of where risk lives and innovation thrives,\u201d highlighting the example of SpaceX\u2019s \u201cfail early, fail often\u201d culture.<\/p>\n<p>Arrington\u2019s message was about fighting complacency and going after boundary-pushing ideas, talking about how small ideas may cause a ripple effect and lead to a critical impact in space defense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be making a workflow or process speed up a half a second faster,\u201d Arrington said. \u201cWhen you drop your pebble in the river, your ripple effect is so far out and out that seven years from now \u2014 when someone goes to launch a kinetic satellite that punches another bad satellite out of orbit, you speeding up a workflow on that processor was the eighth of the second that was needed that stopped the war.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More from CyberSat 2025:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Multi-Orbit Networks Expand the Attack Surface, But Basic Cyber Threats Remain, Experts Say<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">NRO Establishes Space Cyber Program After Last Month\u2019s Moonshine Guardian Exercise<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">DHS Wants Satellite Volunteers to Test New Cyber Tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon\u2019s acting Chief Information Officer (CIO) Katie Arrington tasked space cyber professionals with pushing the boundaries and not falling into complacency in a Monday morning keynote address at CyberSat in Reston, Virginia.&nbsp; Arrington spoke Nov. 17 about a week after the Department of Defense\u2019s long-awaited Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) entered its enforcement phase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}