Editor’s note: This post by Sean Lawson provides context on cyber conflict, an area of interest at the nexus of national security and technology. – bg Recently, Dr. Thomas Rid of the War Studies department of King’s College in London published an article in the Journal of St...
Long Island’s business and technology leaders began an effort Tuesday to start a new industry here that would focus on protecting companies, government agencies and individuals from cyber attacks that have been increasingly causing chaos in the financial world and other industries. More than 1...
The United States military has explicitly stated that it has the right to retaliate with military force against a cyber-attack. In a 12-page report sent to Congress, the Department of Defense (DoD) said the military can launch a physical attack in the case of a cyber-attack against its systems. Th...
FORT MEADE, Md., Sept. 27, 2011 — Recognizing there’s no cookie-cutter formula for a “cyber warrior,” the outgoing chief of staff at U.S. Cyber Command said the strong, diverse capabilities already in place will provide the foundation for the military’s professional cyb...
Is America at war in cyberspace? In the face of increasingly brazen cyber attacks against our country, the Obama administration established the first military command devoted to cyberspace, U.S. Cyber Command, in 2010. And the Pentagon has issued a new declaratory policy in which the United States a...
via Network World The Department of Homeland Security works with financial institutions to thwart cyber attacks and plans to do so more and more in the future, according to DHS testimony to Congress, including sharing top secret cyber intelligence. “To achieve our shared goals, we need to incr...
via Computer Weekly Cyber attacks are escalating from large-scale theft and disruption of computer operations to more lethal attacks that destroy systems and physical equipment, according to the head of the US Cyber Command. “That’s our concern about what’s coming in cyberspace ...
via GovInfoSecurity Cyber intelligence, a new approach to IT security, could make significant gains in the coming year, says Terry Roberts, chair of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s Cyber Council. “The good thing is,” she says, “this isn’t really rocket...