US Defence bureaucrats are bashing numbers into a database in a bid to develop what the agency hopes will become an automated security scorecard, assessing vulnerability exposure across the country’s networks and weapons systems. The scorecard is at present a manual effort which will identify vulnerabilities and propose the means to mitigate and patch. It will be handled by some of a pool of 6,200 Defence staffers being established in 133 information security response teams across the agency that will hit operational capability by the end of next year. Those teams have been rolling out since 2013 under what Defence calls a ‘four-year sprint’. Some units are being put to work before being fully setup to speed up the effort. The scorecard is being led by Pentagon chief information officer Terry Halvorsen. It was developed after agency testing chief Michael Gilmore issued a report this year noting that almost every major US weapons system contained vulnerabilities.v
