Two men enter the booth of Lockheed Martin, the biggest defense company in the world, during the Singapore Airshow February 9, 2020 in Singapore. The Pentagon launched the Defense Industrial Base Vulnerability Disclosure pilot this week, which will allow researchers to probe a pre-approved list of DoD contractor information systems, networks and applications. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)
The Department of Defense is putting the systems and networks of defense contractors to the test in a new pilot vulnerability disclosure program, the latest indicator of the government’s desire to expand upon its previous ventures crowdsourcing cybersecurity.
The Defense Industrial Base Vulnerability Disclosure pilot will last 12 months and allow researchers to probe a pre-approved list of DoD contractor information systems, networks and applications. The Pentagon said that any vulnerabilities submitted through the program will be used for defensive purposes, not to develop new off