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Last year, the Defense Department issued the Cybersecurity Culture and Compliance Initiative, a memorandum containing alarming statistics on the actual number of successful network compromises and their causes, and principles for guiding daily operations for network users. The good news is that out of 30 million known malicious intrusions occurring over 10 months, 99.9 percent were prevented. The bad news is that .1 percent—or 30,000 attacks—successfully compromised a DOD cyber system.

Tightening up the process and its hardware will eliminate many vulnerability gaps.

It would take a nation-state with advanced cyber capabilities to alter U.S. election; those adversaries exist today.

Federal, state and local law enforcement authorities are becoming more sophisticated about cyber attacks and devoting more resources to responding to them.

Devices are more vulnerable than the electorate realizes, but provide less of an opportunity than many hackers might hope.

The recommendations are offered as the government observes Cyber Awareness Month.

Experts are divided on whether they are safe or to what degree they are vulnerable.

Smaller businesses have become bigger targets for cyber attacks. Now more than ever, owners must quantify the risk and what could happen as a result of a successful cyber breach.

Army leads a task force of cyber warriors dedicated solely to the militant group's cyber efforts, general says.

Thriving in the digital age means embracing disruptive technologies and work force reforms.