In the old days, I would have agreed with the author’s final assessment, we are not in a cold war because “[h]acks still happen every day, true, but digital infrastructure survives and thrives despite them.” Except they don’t. The author does not appear to be familiar with Stuxnet and Shamoon. Both cyber attacks disabled physical… Continue reading Russian cyber attacks: Are we in the midst of a new Cold War?

In light of the US’ recent Cyber Strategy, this new wrinkle in “Defend Forward” may cause nightmares for potential adversarial countries.  Cyber Mission Force Achieves Full Operational Capability FORT MEADE, Md. — All 133 of U.S. Cyber Command’s cyber mission force teams achieved full operational capability, Cybercom officials announced today. (17 May 2018) The concept was pioneered in… Continue reading US Cyber “Defend Forward” Takes On A Whole New Look: Allies

This morning I did a very loud and painful facepalm when reading an analysis of the new DoD Cyber Strategy. I shall leave the guilty party unidentified, it’s really that bad. A large portion of the analysis focused on the “where” of “defending forward”. It doesn’t matter. In the relatively short period of time in… Continue reading What Does “Defend Forward” Cyber Strategy Mean?