Provides certain protections for military service members, their families, and veterans to ensure identity protection.
Military service members, veterans, and their families are prime targets for identity theft and fraud. This couldn’t have been demonstrated more clearly than the Office of Personnel Management security breach in 2015.
It is in the best interest of National Security to protect this community by providing means for individuals to harden their home cybersecurity and provide a means of protecting their identity.
Many credit card companies provide identity protection, up to $1 million dollars in legal fees, dark web monitoring, and credit monitoring as a benefit to their members. The government may be able to negotiate these benefits for all holders of government travel cards and their families.
It may be appropriate to also provide these protections to retirees and certain veterans who held clearances or were in national security positions.
It would also be wise to provide free vpn and antivirus software for these communities. This may be able to be facilitated through the online Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) portal, similar to how the government provides professional materials and trainings through services like safari books.
Providing these vital identity protection and cybersecurity resources to services members, veterans, and their families, would harden the largest attack surface and reduce vulnerabilities, ensuring protection of National Security as well as security to families who choose to protect this nation.
Also, the bill would require video surveillance and adequate security in privatized military housing.
In 2019, my military home was broken into by someone seeking to harm military families. There was no video surveillance and an employee of the military housing even entered my home, spoke with the intruder, yet did nothing knowing that my family was away. The man trashed our home and had left a manifesto of how he wished to harm us. The housing assumed no responsibility and would not provide as alternative housing, even while a suspect was at large.
More has to be done to protect military families.