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   Mike Powell to All   
   Hegseth cracks down on be   
   04 Oct 25 08:54:25   
   
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   US Department of War reduces cybersecurity training, tells soldiers to focus   
   on their mission   
      
   Date:   
   Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:32:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Hegseth cracks down on beards, but relaxes cybersecurity requirements.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   A newly circulated memo from the US Government's Department of War (otherwise   
   known as the Department of Defense) has actioned the relaxing of    
   cybersecurity training, despite cracking down on shaving waivers and physical   
   appearance.    
      
   "The Department of War is committed to enabling our warfighters to focus on   
   their core mission of fighting and winning our Nation's wars without   
   distraction," the memo confirms. "Mandatory Department training will be   
   directly linked to warfighting or otherwise be consolidated, reduced in   
   frequency, or eliminated."    
      
   The memo also calls for military departments to automate information   
   management systems to eliminate training requirements, as well as reducing    
   the frequency of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) training.   
      
   Training reduction   
      
   The US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth argued when personnel are not training    
   on the mission, the military is less prepared for preventing war in future -    
   a possibly short-sighted view considering the US Air Force is currently   
   investigating a data breach thought to have been carried out by Chinese    
   threat actors.    
      
   Alongside the relaxation of training requirements, the Privacy Act Training    
   is set to be removed from the Common Military Training list - which is    
   perhaps not surprising given Hegseths rather colorful record with privacy   
   rules .    
      
   The move is also a change in direction from just a few weeks prior, when the   
   DoD issued a strict new set of cybersecurity rules for potential contractors    
   . These new regulations introduced three different compliance levels    
   dependent on the sensitivity of the data they handle, and firms vying for   
   contracts must be compliant in order to be selected.    
      
   Cyberattacks and intrusions are perhaps more prolific than ever, with more    
   and more of our daily lives becoming digital.    
      
    Critical infrastructure sustained 13 attacks per second in 2023, and that   
   number is only rising - and with human error still the primary intrusion    
   point in the vast majority of cases, reducing cybersecurity training for   
   anyone with links to national security is an incredibly risky move by the   
   Defense Secretary.    
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/us-department-of-war-reduces-cybersecur   
   ity-training-tells-soldiers-to-focus-on-their-mission   
      
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