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A government watchdog is sounding the alarm about a growing national security threat online. Rather than a traditional cyberattack, however, this one comes from the everyday digital footprints service members and their families leave across the internet.
A new Government Accountability Office report warns that publicly accessible data — from social media posts and location tracking to Defense Department press releases — can be pieced together by malicious actors to identify military personnel, target their families and disrupt military operations.
According to GAO, while the Pentagon has taken some steps to address the threat, its efforts remain scattered, inconsistent and lack coordination.
“We found that the department recognized that there were security issues, but they weren’t necessarily well-prepared to respond to them because it was new, because it didn’t necessarily neatly fit into existing organizational structures or policies or doctrines, and that’s a consistent story with the department,” Joe Kirschbaum, director of the defense capabilities and management team at GAO, told Federal News Network.
To understand the risks posed to DoD personnel and operations that come from the aggregation of publicly accessible digital data, the watchdog conducted its own investigation and built notional threat scenarios showing how that information could be exploited. GAO began by surveying the types of data already available online and also assigned investigators to scour the dark web for information about service members.
In addition to basic social media posts, investigators found data brokers selling personal and even operational information about DoD personnel and their families — information that can be combined with other publicly available data to build a more complete profile.
“Once you start putting some of these things together, potentially, you start to see a pattern — whether it’s looking at individuals, whether it’s the individuals linked to military operational units or operations themselves, family members. Nefarious actors can take these things and build them into a profile that could be used for nefarious purposes,” Kirschbaum said.
One of GAO’s threat scenarios shows how publicly accessible information can expose sensitive military training materials and capabilities. Investigators found that social media posts, online forums and dark-web marketplaces contained everything from military equipment manuals, detailed training materials, and photos of facility and aircraft interiors. When combined, these digital footprints can reveal information about equipment modifications, strategic partnerships or potential vulnerabilities, which can be used to clone products, exploit weaknesses or undermine military operations.
And while DoD has identified the public accessibility of digital data as a “real and growing threat,” GAO found that DoD’s policies and guidance are narrowly focused on social media and email use rather than the full range of potential risks from aggregated digital footprints.
For instance, the DoD chief information officer has prohibited the use of personal email or messaging apps for official business involving controlled unclassified information. But that policy doesn’t address the use of personal accounts on personal devices for unofficial tasks involving unclassified information — such as booking travel, accessing military travel orders, or posting on social media — activities that can pose similar risks once aggregated.
In addition, DoD officials acknowledged that current policies and guidance do not fully address the range of risks created by publicly accessible digital information about DoD and its personnel. They said part of the challenge is that the department has limited authority to regulate actions of DoD personnel and contractors outside of an operational environment.
“In general, except for the operation security folks, the answer was they didn’t really consider this kind of publicly available information in their own sphere. It’s not like they didn’t recognize there’s an issue, but it was more like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s a problem. But I think it’s handled in these other areas.’ Almost like passing the buck. They didn’t understand, necessarily, where it was handled. And the answer was, it should probably be handled collectively amidst this entire structure,” Kirschbaum said.
The officials also said that while they had planned to review current policies and guidance, they “had not collaborated to address digital profile risks because they did not believe the digital profile threat and its associated risks aligned with the Secretary of Defense’s priorities,” including reviving warrior ethos, restoring trust in the military and reestablishing deterrence by defending the homeland.
“One of our perspectives on this is we know we’re not sure where you would put this topic in terms of those priorities. I mean, this is a pretty clear case where it’s a threat to the stability and efficacy of our military forces. That kind of underlines all priorities — you can’t necessarily defend the homeland with forces that have maybe potential operational security weaknesses. So it would seem to kind of undergird all of those priorities,” Kirschbaum said.
“We also respect the fact that as the department’s making tough choices, whether it’s concentrations of policy, financial and things of that nature, they do have to figure out the most immediate ways to apply dollars. For example, we’re asking the department to look across all those security disciplines and more thoroughly incorporate these threats in that existing process. The extent they’re going to have to make investments in those, they do have to figure out what needs to be done first and where this fits in,” he added.
GAO issued 12 recommendations to individual components and agency heads, but at its core, Kirschbaum said, is the need for the department to incorporate the threat of publicly available information into its existing structure.
“In order to do that, we’re asking them to use those existing structures that they do have, like the security enterprise executive committee, as their collaborative mechanism. We want that body to really assess where the department is. And sometimes they’re better able to identify exactly what they need to do, rather than us telling them. We want them to identify what they need to do and conduct those efforts,” he said.
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