By Jim Garamone DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2017 — Defense of America’s interests inward cyberspace took centre phase on Capitol Hill today equally the Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony close protecting the acre from cyberattacks.
Kenneth P. Rapuano, the assistant secretarial assistant of defense strength for homeland defense strength in addition to global security, stressed that the subdivision is merely ane component division of the whole-of-government approach to cyberdefense.
The principal mission for DoD is ensuring its ain cyberdefense in addition to ensuring communications with its worldwide assets, Rapuano said inward prepared testimony. But if called upon, he added, the subdivision would locomote component division of whatever interagency reply to a meaning cyberattack.
Cyber Threats
Rapuano said cyberdefense is a timely topic, equally “the threats in addition to score of malicious activeness nosotros human face upwards inward cyberspace are existent in addition to growing. This various in addition to persistent laid of threats comes from reason in addition to non-state actors who probe in addition to scan U.S. networks for vulnerabilities. The states nosotros lookout most closely inward cyberspace include China, Iran, Democratic People's South Korea in addition to peculiarly Russia.”
DoD cyber forces expect to defend DoD networks, systems, in addition to data to ensure that DoD tin accomplish its essence missions, Rapuano said. The subdivision also looks to render integrated cyber capabilities inward back upwards of operational in addition to contingency plans.
Rapuano said the Cyber Mission Force is DoD’s principal capability to behave out DoD’s cyber mission. The force, nether U.S. Cyber Command, has to a greater extent than than 6,000 service members in addition to civilians in addition to achieved initial operational capacity merely over a yr ago. It is projected to laissez passer on sum operational capacity past times the destination of this novel financial year.
“In damage of readiness, equally good equally operational activities inward back upwards of the crusade to defeat the Islamic State inward Republic of Iraq in addition to Syria, DoD is already seeing the results of those investments,” he said.
Working With Other Agencies
The strength industrial plant with other entities inward government, Rapuano said. “The Cyber National Mission Force through its integrated operations plays a key role,” he said. “This strength combines the capabilities of National Mission Teams that pursue adversaries into cherry space; National Support Teams that render additional capacity inward analysis, linguists, reporting, capability evolution in addition to targeting; in addition to national Cyber Protection Teams that hunt adversaries inward friendly terrain.”
This integration allows cyber defense strength experts to larn the tactics, techniques, in addition to procedures of adversaries in addition to to bring out malicious cyber activity, Rapuano said. “These teams develop and, if directed, undertake operations to deter, delay, disrupt, in addition to defeat an imminent or ongoing cyberattack or malicious cyber activity,” he said. “The combined efforts of these teams give the CMF the capacity to operate on a global scale against the broad spectrum of adversaries in addition to growing threats.”
DoD industrial plant with allies in addition to partners worldwide to position threats in addition to mitigate attacks, the official said. “In add-on to these external partnerships, the subdivision is leveraging its ain mission assurance risk-management processes to identify, prioritize in addition to mitigate the most impactful vulnerabilities to the critical infrastructure that is cardinal to DoD’s mightiness to projection mightiness in addition to protect the U.S. homeland, our people, in addition to our allies in addition to partners,” Rapuano said.
Addressing Challenges
Rapuano said his highest priority is to address the challenges that however human face upwards the subdivision inward cyberspace in addition to its role inward the broader interagency reply effort.
“Specifically, I am working to reinvigorate the role of the Principal Cyber Advisor; to clarify the department’s internal lines of accountability in addition to authorization inward cyber; in addition to to integrate in addition to communicate to a greater extent than effectively DoD cyberspace strategy, plans, in addition to educate in addition to equip functions inward cyber,” he said. “It is also fourth dimension to revise our cyber strategy, update policy on such key cyber issued equally deterrence in addition to interpret this in addition to other guidance into capabilities, forces, in addition to operations that volition keep our superiority inward this domain.”
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