Security Controls For Effective Cyber Defense

RESILIENCY TO CURRENT AND FUTURE CYBER ATTACKS 1. In order to adequately secure computer network domains, the Department of Defense must examine incumbent security practices against the existing cyber adversary’s capabilities.1 Currently, the Airforce is maintaining an outdated and reactive defense posture that is not prepared for current or future cyberspace attacks.2 Therefore, the possible solutions to resiliency on the battlefield of cyber warfare will depend on effective counterstrategies to enemy

Running head: Defense in depth: Is it applicable 1 Defense in depth: Is it applicable 11 Defense in Depth: Is It Applicable to Today?s Environment? Jahan Tolliver Webster University Abstract The defense-in-depth model is an approach to establishing an adequate cybersecurity posture that involves the integrating of people, technology and operations. The model also involves the coordinated use of multiple security countermeasures to protect network assets. The model stems from the defense of the castle

Cyber Warfare Warfare can be defined as engaging in war or conflict. There are many different categories of warfare. More commonly known types include guerilla warfare, land warfare, aerial warfare, and naval warfare. Although when war is mentioned many minds wander to these forms of warfare, there are others that are not always as obvious. A rapidly growing type of warfare is cyber warfare. Cyber warfare can be defined as attacks from other nations to tap in to or destroy any type of information

Cyber warfare can be described has a the calculated or premeditated use of different activities against computers or networks, with a the intent to cause harm or further political, social, religious agenda. Specific examples of Cyber warfare would be theft of intellectual property or unauthorized network breaches to get access to certain data. In cyber warfare nations or individual are motivated to steal to breach other countries or business to steal proprietary or classified information from the

Cyber Espionage In India Cyber espionage is an area that has recently attracted the attentions of Indian government and corporate houses alike. Both Indian government and corporate houses are the biggest loosers from cyber espionage. Sensitive information on national security and trade secrets and commercial information has been occasionally stolen through cyber espionage in India. India has been a victim of cyber espionage on many occasions where crackers operating in foreign jurisdictions

Cyber Defense Concerns in Global Security The cyber domain crosses both physical and logical borders across the globe. No longer is every aspect of a domain clearly part of a single nation. Occurrences within cyberspace has far reaching effects. 15 million T-Mobile customer’s data stolen via Experian server compromise, massive cyberattacks on Estonia and Georgia networks (2007 and 2008 respectively), and over $1 trillion reportedly lost due to cybercrime. These are just a few concerns facing

CYBERSECURITY 4 Cybersecurity: An overview of the National Initiative for Cyber Security Education (NICE) framework for risk assessment The National Initiative for Cyber Security Education (NICE) consists of seven components that are defined as the cornerstones of modern cybersecurity: security provision; operation and maintenance; protection and defense; investigation; collection and operationalization; analyzing; and providing oversight and development. "The Framework is at the core of this

1. Prevention/Containment Measures for Cyber Threats. Protecting classified documents or valuable information is very hard against any kind of cyber-terrorism, there are no universal safeguards. There is no existence of any agreement or policy to define cyber-terrorism. Threats can come from hackers, criminal group or terrorist group; governments use computers and internet to attack without knowing the victims. It is not easy to stop such attacks but not impossible to stop if following basic prevention

Cyber operations entail getting behind the most serious aspects of cyber terrorism and leading to the capture of those perpetrating cyber crimes. Our society's dependence on the Internet for public and private institutions in the critical sectors of government, defense, emergency services, public health, even the basics of food and water, put us at great risk of cyber terrorism. Telecommunications, transportation, banking, and the like are all conducted via the Internet and this dependence creates

of the U.S. contemporary security environment. For years, the American people have been victimized by cyber-attacks by having their personal information, emails, credit card, and banking information stolen by an invisible enemy named cyberterrorism. These types of attacks seem insignificant however; they are small examples of the vulnerabilities that our cyber world is experiencing. Our vulnerabilities are leaving our public officials in significant danger from cyber-attacks, as they are vulnerable