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Nonsupported Windows Operating Systems Running on Pentagon Computers
April 30th, 2017
Via: DefenseOne:
Building and electrical systems, HVAC equipment and other critical infrastructure laden with internet-connected sensors often run on operating systems unsupported by vendors. Even as the Pentagon pushes to upgrade its information systems to Windows 10 by this year, its critical infrastructure remains woefully behind.
“About 75 percent of the devices that are control systems are on Windows XP or other nonsupported operating systems,� said Daryl Haegley, program manager for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations and Environment.
Haegley, speaking Thursday at an event hosted by OSIsoft, said the assessment was based on visits to 15 military sites. Microsoft stopped providing support for Windows XP in 2014. Haegley, however, said some of the systems that run DOD facilities are far older.
“A lot of these systems are still Windows 95 or 98, and that’s OK—if they’re not connected to the internet,� Haegley added.
Increasingly, though, sensors in these kinds of systems do connect to the internet, or at least newer components of them do.
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