Risky Cyber Security: '7012' Regulations Federally-Driven Inhibitor to Resilience within the Defense Industrial Base - A Position Paper

U.S. Department of Defense regulations intended to improve cybersecurity within the Defense Industrial Base may cause degradation of critical defense infrastructure. Four impediments to 'clean' compliance, environmental and internal, are detailed. Inability to functionally comply, or to correctly insure, will impact the DIB's cybersecurity decision-making at the enterprise level. Economic impact to the DIB may drive withdrawal and attrition from the sector, or aversion to R&D, which negatively affects mission resilience with concomitant capability loss to the DoD.