Small Defense Firms Lack Network Data to Stop Nation-State Hackers, Analyst Says

The article warns that nation-state actors (e.g., Volt/Salt Typhoon, Fancy Bear, UNC1549) are increasingly conducting extended reconnaissance and pre-positioning against the US defense industrial base by exploiting edge infrastructure (routers, firewalls, VPNs) and multiple zero-days observed in 2025; it stresses that small and mid-size contractors lack sufficient network telemetry and recommends NetFlow monitoring, faster patching, segmentation, and hunting for anomalous DNS and lateral movement.