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Earlier this month, Army Maj. General Stephen Smith, director of the Cyberspace Task Force for the service, discussed his plans for secure remote access.

According to Maj. General Smith, the Army and the Defense Information Systems Agency will issue a broad agency announcement by the early summer detailing a new approach to securing mobile devices.

In plain English, the proposed solution would provide remote workers with an easy-to-use solution to access their network data and information from wherever and whenever they wanted, but would prohibit then from extracting or downloading that information externally (onto external devices). Maj. General Smith clearly understands the importance of and need for both identity management and data entitlement, which are not only serious concerns with potentially catastrophic consequences for the government, but also for private business. 

In my opinion, the largest threat we as a nation face is fro! m cyberattack and loss of critical data. 

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