Cyber Security : Armed Forces Sub Unified Command Of America

The US-CERT is part of DHS' National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC). The US-CERT is an important global leader in cybersecurity. The Department of Homeland Security's United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) focuses on improving the Nation's cybersecurity posture, coordinating cyber information sharing, and proactively managing cyber risks to the Nation while protecting the constitutional rights of Americans. US-CERT also operates the National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS) that focuses on intrusion detection and prevention as it relates to federal departments and agencies.

There are two directions for information and directives to drive strategic cyberspace decisions at NSWC PCD. The first is always direction sent through the Navy command chain by either direction from an Admiral and policy changes or through directives from N2/N6 at NAVNETWARCOM through the CIO/IA command chain. Either path often leaves little room for choosing an interpretation locally. However, either the upper management, Commanding Officer, Technical Director, and technical department heads will meet and issue a local direction or in some cases directives flow from N2/N6 to NAVSEA to The Warfare Center Headquarters to the Warfare Center CIO and/or IAM. In the case of the latter path, more input, discussion, and interpretation is available at the local level. In those cases the CIO will call a meeting of the IAM, IT Manager, IT Operations Manager, and other key advisors to discuss the requirements and provide options on the how to meet those goals within the strategic operation plan of the command. The CIO will then draft a local recommendation to be presented at the CO/TD forum for upper

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The Department of Defense is one of the oldest executive departments of the executive branches in the United States of America and is in control of national security and the Armed Forces of the United States. More than 3 million employees embody the Department of Defense and control it’s day-to-day operations and is well funded with a budget of $680 billion thanks to a bill that passed 68-29 in 2010 . Under the Secretary of Defense there is a very powerful Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense, Teri Takai. Teri is responsible for developing strategic plans and to align with the department’s mission and the mission of the United States. The CIO of the Department of Defense interested me because of the decisions having to be made affect so many users. Every decision Teri makes has to be spot on and has to take in consideration, how it will hurt or benefit other departments or national security. The goal of the CIO is to unify the information management and to advance the technology vision of the department.

The Cyberspace Defense Operations career is a fairly new profession created roughly 5 years ago. They report directly to the also newly stood up, U.S. Cyber Command and 24th Air Force located in San Antonio, Texas. According to the 1B4X1 Career Field Education and Training Plan, their mission is to “perform duties to develop, sustain, and enhance cyberspace capabilities to defend national interests from attack and to create effects in cyberspace to achieve national objectives” and partner with “interagency and Coalition Forces to detect, deny, disrupt, deceive and mitigate adversarial access to sovereign national cyberspace systems.” Many of the items listed above are tasks we already complete in our current job. There are a few items that will need to be addressed to ensure you will have a successful transition; like your personal traits that you’ve exhibited that I would like to shed some light on.

On October 31, 2010, The United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) achieved Full Operational Capability becoming a sub-unified command under the United States Strategic Command. As a newly formed armed forces command, USCYBERCOM was given the mission for centralizing cyberspace operations, organizing existing cyber resources and synchronizing the defense of military networks. In order to achieve this mission, prior Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, directed the USCYBERCOM to focus on developing cyber capability and capacity via the DoD’s Cyber Strategy. The purpose of this strategy is to guide the development of DoD's cyber forces and strengthen the United States cyber defense and cyber deterrence posture while building cyber capabilities

- As Cyber Incident Manager, he directing the investigation and cleanup of 171 Naval Cyber Defense incidents and Naval Network Warfare Electronic Spillage incidents resulting in the tasking and closure of 207 remedy tickets contributing to the operational readiness posture of the network.

The ADF will hopefully use this unit to establish procedures, countermeasures and policies on the use of technology on operations, training exercises and deployments. These policies and procedures must eliminate the possibility of the threat first, so that it may never evolve into a real cyber threat. For example, if there were a policy in place where all ADF members could not use GPS tracking devices on bases or deployment, the Strava breach may not have occurred. This was done in 2016, when all ADF members were banned from playing Pokémon Go on HMAS Albatross after it was found that personnel were accidently photographing aircraft and sensitive information in the background whilst trying to catch Pokémon. Subsequently the geotagging involved in those photographs could pinpoint exactly where the photographed aircraft were, which was then accessible by non-defence personnel. These events and data breaches need to be fought on the front foot rather than after each breach. They need to be foreseen by not just the new cyber command, but by all personnel, and this can be done by introducing policies and

I am choosing a government agency for my project, specifically, the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). On June 23, 2009, the Secretary of Defense directed the creation of USCYBERCOM and in 2010 USCYBERCOM reached full operational capability becoming the most recent sub-unified command to be developed in the United States in 50 years, the last being the United States Special Forces Command. I was one of the first military members assigned to the new command and have continued to support the command today. According to the U.S Strategic Command, “the USCYBERCOM the plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when

For outstanding service between November 2015 and March 2016 in direct and implied support for the Recruiting Services Network (RSN) Command Cyber Readiness Inspection (CCRI). Mr. Michael Wortmann’s integrity, selfless service, commitment and dedication significantly contributed to the success of the operation of CSD, the Personnel Information Systems Directorate (PERSINSD) and the U.S. Army Human Resources Command (HRC). He contributed during this time period in preparation for documentation, Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), technical STIGs and traditional security STIGs totaling 5,870 RSN STIGs. In this preparation, coordination and execution within the division, across divisions, across directorates and across commands

All US services utilize airpower to sustain the three pillars of the 2014 QDR : protect the homeland; build security globally; and project power and win decisively. There are many ways the services provide airpower support, but this paper only touched on one for each pillar. For the protection of the homeland, cyber security was the way that was shown. A current example of the importance of cyber security is the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. This breach allowed the theft of personal information, including but not limited to social security numbers, belonging to millions of Federal employees, their spouses, and others. For the pillar of building global security, the support of our allies and partners was the method

According to Palmer (2010) The U.S. Defense Department's Quadrennial Defense Review emphasized the expanding hazard posed by cyber-warfare/terrorism on communication systems and space-based investigation. "On any given day, there are as many as 8 million Department of Defense telecommunications tools and computers in use in 78 countries using thousands of support and war-fighting applications. The number of possible susceptibilities, therefore, is staggering," the Review

NETCOM is a global organization with subordinate units all over the world. NETCOM is commanded by a Major General (2-star) and has a deputy for operations (1-star General), a deputy for support (1-star General) and a Department of the Army civilian that is equivalent to a 1-star General for Enterprise Services. NETCOM has four subordinate commands each commanded by a Brigadier General (1-star) and each command is responsible for a geographical portion of the earth. The 5th Signal Command is responsible for the European theater and North Africa, the 7th Signal Command is responsible for the Continental United States, the 311th Signal Command is responsible for the Pacific theater and lastly the 335th Signal Command is responsible for the South West Asia Theater to include the Horn of

Strategic goal II: Defend the DoD information network, secure DoD data, and mitigate risks to DoD missions. (INSA

The damage of a full-fledged cyber attack would be devastating, the destruction would be unparalleled to any other tragedy that has occurred America. Since technology is responsible for providing America with vital entities and resources, an unadulterated cyber attack would nearly fail the American economy; this is what is known as critical systems failure. Weapons of mass destruction and cyber attacks present imminent threats of critical systems failure. Although currently Americas’ critical infrastructures are coordinated by controlled systems, majority of these systems are indeed connected to the American cyberspace. This exposes one of America’s most vulnerable spot amidst cyber security. Another major vulnerable spot within the nations IT security would be the geographical physical location for each of Americas primary infrastructures, as well as their productivity. Due to the proximal locations, the major infrastructures could very well be infiltrated by one efficient CNA.