Thursday, 2 June 2016

Believe It or Not, the Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Priorities Haven’t Changed in a Decade — War Is Boring

Believe It or Not, the Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Priorities Haven’t Changed in a Decade


That’s good — and bad

by JOSEPH TREVITHICK
A recently-released document highlights how little the Pentagon’s concerns and responses to threats in cyberspace have changed in the past decade. As American legislators debate the future of the military’s top cybersecurity headquarters, experts say that’s both good and bad.
In 2006, the Pentagon organized a first-of-its-kind exercise involving a “directed professional attack” across military computer networks. The “Bulwark Defender” cyber war game was supposed to help military planners determine how well troops from different units communicated with each other while enemy agents hacked their computers.
The exercise would “confirm [the] importance of defending networks,” according to an official review. War Is Boring obtained the report — previously labeled “for official use only” — via the Freedom of Information Act.

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