US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered measures to increase the security of his services after the leak of top-secret documents revealed earlier this year, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday, AFP and Reuters reported.

The audit, which spent a month and a half studying the department’s procedures, “identified areas where we should and can improve accountability measures,” Lloyd Austin wrote in a memo released by the Pentagon, to prevent the risks of leaking classified documents. , regardless of whether they come from outside or inside.

The secretary plans to launch a project to create an agency called the Office of Joint Management of Insider Threats and Cyber ​​Capabilities to “enhance threat monitoring across all networks” of the Pentagon.

He also wants to “immediately improve the tracking and control of top secret information” and strengthen defenses of the Defense Department’s “classified data.”

Jack Teixeira, 21, a National Guard recruit, was arrested in April and charged with leaking classified documents online, including one about the war in Ukraine.