As the WannaCry ransomware hack wreaks havoc worldwide, one senator wants to make sure federal agencies are protected.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is worried that federal networks could be vulnerable to malware such as WannaCry, which has been linked to an exploit developed by the National Security Agency.
“Both within the federal government and across critical infrastructure sectors, IT security has too often been either, at best, addressed as an afterthought in the product development cycle or, worse, simply neglected,” Warner wrote in a May 15 letter to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.
