The United States Office Of Personnel Management Cyber

cooperation has helped create a safer environment in the United States, and helped prepare emergency personnel in the detection, prevention, and response to both natural and man made disasters. As part of the cooperative effort

The United States Office of Personnel Management published an announcement in the month of June in 2015, that its office has been the object of ridicule from a high-level cyber-attack. This office is the section for the United States government, which oversees the federal government’s civil services (Lee, 2015). The department manages the security okays necessary for numerous of jobs in the government that oversees top-secret approvals for the armed forces in the United States. Five point six

regions of the world sparks controversies resulting in state funded cyber attacks, cyber espionage and terrorism against the United States and its allied nations. When several attempts to cripple the United States and its allied nations through negotiations failed, enemy states and nefarious groups have shifted their focus to cyber attacks and cyber espionage. According to Gady (2016), “China continues cyber espionage against the United States”. Drezner (2014), “Washington and Beijing hardly agree

awakened to a new down of information warfare, a threat that stubbornly dogs the United States Homeland Security in form of cyber terrorism. Abstract Cyber warfare is part of the American military’s proactive defense strategies. Besides the use of Cyber warfare in defense, Cyber warfare has another use as a means of attack. According to the United States military cyber-attack is a form of ancient act of war. In 2013, Cyber warfare was for the first time perceived to be a more significant threat than

nuclear or radiological materials through the sea containers aboard vessels into the United States. These radio-active materials could be used by terrorist to make radiological dispersal device, which if denotes inside major city, will be catastrophic and create long time psychological effect. The Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006, as amended, mandated that all containers entering the United States (U.S.) at the 22 ports through which the greatest container volume enters the country

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body responsible for maintaining the security and safety of the United States from attack by terrorists and other possible disasters. DHS was created after the attack by terrorists on 11th September 2001 and it has immensely focused on federal preparations of dealing with terrorism while at the same time trying to manage other important duty which includes ensuring security of the borders and taking part in customs and emergency management practices. Even with all these it is doing, the department has

As I reach the end of my 20 year career with the United States Air Force, I have begun looking towards the next iteration of my career. Over my lengthy service, I have specialized in cybersecurity of network devices, end-point devices, and overarching policy. Currently, I am assigned as the Noncommissioned Officer in Charge (Director) of the Wing Cybersecurity Office. This position encompasses being the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cyber security and compliance in support HQ AFGSC, HQ 8AF,

by Symantec in their 2014 Internet Security Threat Report and visions of cyber security chaos begins to appear. The scope of this paper cannot cover cyber security threat to the entire Internet or such a broad topic as cyber security threat in general. The intent of this paper is to narrow the subject to cyber security threat assessment in the U.S. Department of Defense. Threat assessment is a necessary activity in DOD cyber security. Both the Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation

Developments in securing the nation’s ports have occurred since September 11, 2001: According to American Association of Ports Authorities (n. d) the United States is served by some 360 commercial ports that provide approximately 3,200 cargo and passenger handling facilities and there are more than 150 deep draft seaports under the jurisdiction of 126 public seaport agencies located along the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf and Great Lakes coasts, as well as in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the