Cyberdefense


Cyber Command sees Plan X as essential to managing cyber missions

The Defense Department needs a mission-critical, command-and-control capability to operate in cyberspace and the closest thing to a workable system is a continuing research effort known as Plan X, says a top CYBERCOM official.

AF Cyberspace Operations Group deployed to protect global grids

A new Cyberspace Operations Group activated March 1 by the Air Force Reserve Command will have as one of its most important duties the protection of Air Force and Defense Department global information grids.

Transcom takes holistic approach to cyber defense to combat intruders

The U.S. Transportation Command is hard at work reducing the number of access points available to cyber intruders as a way to improve its network defensive posture, and also is working closely with its commercial suppliers to strengthen their interfaces with the command, the Transcom commander told Congress.

DOD highly vulnerable to cyberattack from sophisticated opponents

The U.S. military is not ready for full-scale cyber warfare with a sophisticated and well-resourced opponent, and therefore must begin as soon as possible to address a number of major deficiencies in its cyber arsenal and cyber strategy, according to a DOD report.

Air Force seeks small businesses to help it exploit cyber threats

The Air Force is seeking information from small businesses on the capabilities they possess to assist with identifying, neutralizing and exploiting threats in the cyber realm to the service's people, weapons systems and networks.

A new era of cyber startups spring from 'crowdfunding'

Commercialization of advanced technology is creating new opportunities in the realm of cybersecurity, and entrepreneurs are seizing these opportunities before the large tech-sector icons move in.

Addressing the challenge of data for all, but securely

Emerging threats and new devices combine to create a complex and rapidly changing landscape for storage security.

Lockheed, Fixmo team on secure authentication for mobile devices

Defense giant Lockheed Martin and mobile risk management (MRM) provider Fixmo have collaborated to bring to market secure authentication technologies for consumer-grade mobile devices.

Independent analysis of DOD authorization act offers insight on cybersecurity and Big Data

The 2013 National Defense Authorization Act requires the Defense Department to make a number of concrete changes related to IT acquisition, cybersecurity, and network operations and software that will change the way the department does business in the years ahead.

Like it or not, controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill is back

Two members of the House Intelligence Committee on Feb. 13 reintroduced their Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which passed the House of Representatives last year but failed to make it through the Senate.

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