Pentagon to unveil cybersecurity strategy

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Source: The Washington Post

The Pentagon is set to unveil Thursday a strategy for protecting its computer systems that goes beyond erecting firewalls and stresses the use of sensors, software and data collected by U.S. intelligence, U.S. officials said.

At the same time, officials have labored to make their “Cyber 3.0” strategy not appear too bellicose in an effort to counter perceptions that the United States is militarizing cyberspace, according to people briefed on the process.

Those perceptions have been driven by the creation of U.S. Cyber Command, a military organization that is allied with the government’s largest and most technologically sophisticated spy agency, the National Security Agency. The Pentagon also has declared that cyberspace is a new “domain” of warfare — alongside air, land, sea and space.

But drafts of a speech introducing the policy, set for delivery Thursday by Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III, suggest that officials want to tamp down criticism that U.S. cybersecurity policy is more offensive than defensive. “Far from militarizing cyberspace, our strategy of securing networks to deny the benefit of an attack will help dissuade military actors from using cyberspace for hostile purposes,” reads one section of a draft obtained by the online publication Nextgov.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/pentagon-to-unveil-cybersecurity-strategy/2011/07/12/gIQADG4ADI_story.html

[gateley]

1. Hasn't the Pentagon's system already been hacked? nt

[Proletariatprincess]

2. Yes.

That is why they have declared cyberspace the new "domain" of warfare. This declaration cannot be good for whistleblowers. I think they are actually scared at this point. They know that their secrets are not as secure as they would like them to be.
We all need to support whistleblowers no matter what they are called or charged by the keepers of secrets.

[gateley]

6. Agree and agree! nt

[ChrisBorg]

3. How reassuring. They only want to protect us...

officials want to tamp down criticism that U.S. cybersecurity policy is more offensive than defensive. “Far from militarizing cyberspace, our strategy of securing networks to deny the benefit of an attack will help dissuade military actors from using cyberspace for hostile purposes,”

[bahrbearian]

4. Is that why they keep misplacing trillions?

[Nihil]

5. Nah ... that was the bill for the pay-porn sites. (n/t)