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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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