By: iPadfanzz staff on January 28, 2013
Pentagon wants to take its cybersecurity force from the present 900 to 4,900 over the next five years, said a report published in The Washington Post. Although the decision has not yet announced, the engagement has come on the request of the head of Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the Defense Department’s head of Cyber Command, and director of the NSA.
The effort is aimed towards bolstering the nation’s critical computer systems and conduct offensive computer operations against foreign adversaries, the government has said. The expansion will include troops as well as civilians.
However, it is still not clear how the government wants to go ahead in this direction, but it believed that the decision has been taken because of threat posed by attacks from China on the country’s military-related intellectual property.
The plan calls for the creation of three varieties of forces under the Cyber Command: “national mission forces” to protect computer systems that oversee power plants, electrical grids, and other key infrastructure which is critical to national and economic security. These combat mission forces will help commanders devise the strategies to execute attacks and carry out various offensive operations.
A senior government official said the “national mission” teams would focus their efforts overseas and that they take actions that would include helping the domestic authority – such as the FBI.
“There’s no intent to have the military crawl inside industry or private networks and provide that type of security,” the official said.
The government also made it clear that it would act only when there is a threat that could “really hurt.” Here we’re not talking about doing something to make sure that Mrs. Smith’s bank account didn’t get hijacked by somebody, he added.
Pentagon wants to take its cybersecurity force from the present 900 to 4,900 over the next five years, said a report published in The Washington Post. Although the decision has not yet announced, the engagement has come on the request of the head of Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the Defense Department’s head of Cyber Command, and director of the NSA.
The effort is aimed towards bolstering the nation’s critical computer systems and conduct offensive computer operations against foreign adversaries, the government has said. The expansion will include troops as well as civilians.
However, it is still not clear how the government wants to go ahead in this direction, but it believed that the decision has been taken because of threat posed by attacks from China on the country’s military-related intellectual property.
The plan calls for the creation of three varieties of forces under the Cyber Command: “national mission forces” to protect computer systems that oversee power plants, electrical grids, and other key infrastructure which is critical to national and economic security. These combat mission forces will help commanders devise the strategies to execute attacks and carry out various offensive operations.
A senior government official said the “national mission” teams would focus their efforts overseas and that they take actions that would include helping the domestic authority – such as the FBI.
“There’s no intent to have the military crawl inside industry or private networks and provide that type of security,” the official said.
The government also made it clear that it would act only when there is a threat that could “really hurt.” Here we’re not talking about doing something to make sure that Mrs. Smith’s bank account didn’t get hijacked by somebody, he added.
