Cyber

Since taking the helm of U.S. 10th Fleet Cyber Command in July, Vice Adm. Michael Gilday has worked to maximize his experience as a surface warfare officer and the former director of operations/J-3 at U.S. Cyber Command, among other past assignments. A key aspect he’s been looking to incorporate into Fleet Cyber Command: integrating with…

In a step above other regional commands, Army Central (ARCENT) has taken the Army’s cyberspace strategy and run with it, creating its own follow on strategy called the FY 17/18 USARCENT Cyberspace Strategy. Directly nested with the Army Cyberspace Strategy for unified land operations in 2025, the ARCENT strategy encompasses all three mission sets of…

A new Cyber Training Battalion company, Charlie, has been activated at Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma, according to an article in The Lawton Constitution tweeted by the Army Cyber Command and Second Army. According to reporter Mitch Meador, Lt. Col. Ben Sangster, the Cyber Training Battalion commander, came from the U.S. Army Cyber School at…

The tiny Baltic nation of Estonia is experimenting with the idea of cyberconscription, a move that gives draftees with tech skills the chance to work shoring up their military’s electronic infrastructure, an Estonian defense official said Tuesday. The experiment involves between 10 and 20 draftees, Estonian defense official Erki Kodar told The Associated Press. It…

Peter Kim, Air Force CISO, warned that adversaries are constantly monitoring public and private activity.

Sallie Mae, the nation’s saving, planning and paying for college company, has been named one of the 2017 CSO50 Award honorees by CSO , a leading information security and risk management content and networking resource. Sallie Mae and its chief security officer, Jerry Archer, will be recognized at the CSO50 Conference + Awards in Scottsdale,…

The mental models of espionage have changed forever thanks to the internet and the resulting cyber domain. As more and more businesses and governments move aggressively into digital models of operations, more and more digital assets evolve. Many of those digital assets have substantial value and as such they become targets of acts of espionage.…

The General Services Administration has decided to streamline the way it provides identity protection services, rebranding a special item number (SIN) to focus on mitigation and data breach detection on the Professional Services Schedule. In a Jan. 19 request for information, GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories announced its intention to change…

The federal government should concentrate less on new policies and more on optimizing organizational architecture and culture to support what exists, recommends former Federal Chief Information Security Officer Gregory Touhill in a farewell letter posted Jan. 19. Tapped in September 2016 as the first U.S. CISO to drive cybersecurity policy, planning and implementation across the…

BEIJING (AP) — China is beefing up a campaign to root out services that circumvent the government’s internet censorship with a 14-month-long “clean-up” of the internet industry. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a directive that it forbids the operation of virtual private networks (VPNs) or leased lines that allow users and…