Blog Posts Tagged with "Cyber Defense"
2013 - Year of the D(efense)
December 26, 2012 Added by:Matthew McWhirt
Many of the security incidents encompassing 2012 could have been mitigated, and some even fully prevented, if fundamental information security best practices had been reviewed and assessed, and controls encompassing incident response phases had been fully vetted...
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Israel’s Cyber Defenses Protect Government Sites from 44 Million Attacks
December 11, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Israel’s cyber defense is hard at work blocking millions of incoming cyber attacks. There have been millions of hacking attempts against government sites that have been intercepted with reportedly only one successfully taking down it’s target. And that for only a few minutes...
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Who Needs Words for Wars?
December 09, 2012 Added by:Jayson Wylie
This article holds little validity in my mind and I’m sure that runs up the chain of the Government to President Obama who is the only one, at this time, that seems to be able to have a majority consensus for a direction or secret directives for Cyberspace activities, rules and laws...
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Proactive defense, humans or machines… that’s the question
November 27, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Cyber conflicts are characterized by the necessity of an immediate cyber response to the incoming cyber threats, in many cases the reaction must be instantaneous to avoid the destruction of assets and resources. The human factor could represent an element of delay...
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Defending Your Digital Domain Redux: Take 2
November 21, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
I'll start with I'm not an expert on 'cyber warfare' or a lawyer offering legal advice, in fact I'd simply rather not touch that whole angle at all. I'm much more comfortable addressing this issue as it came up today from a more sensible perspective. What follows in this post is an editorial opinion...
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The Best Cybersecurity Strategy May be Counter-Terror
September 03, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
The problem with a defensive cyber-security strategy is that it does not address the root cause of threats.
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The Right to Keep and Bear Cyber Arms
August 29, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
With all the media hype over Stuxnet, cyber war and cyber weapons – should US citizens be legally allowed to own and use these weapons in accordance with their 2nd Amendment rights? Why shouldn’t Americans be allowed to actively defend themselves against online electronic risks as well as physical threats?
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DOD: Key to Cyber Defense is Highly Skilled People
July 31, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Cyber war is complicated and defending systems demands world-class engineers and technicians and the military must compete with other public agencies and the private sector in attracting these specialists. Having the right people in the right places with the right training is the best defense against any attack...
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NATO Offers Cyber Defense Awareness Online Course
July 23, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence has developed an online Cyber Defence Awareness course that aims to enhance the general user’s awareness of cyber security risks and measures to mitigate those risks. The course may be accessed through the NATO Joint Advanced Distributed Learning portal...
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English Translation of the Dutch Defense Cyber Strategy
July 18, 2012 Added by:Matthijs R. Koot
The biggest threat in the digital domain is due to high-end and complex digital offensive capabilities that are targeted at a specific targets that can severely limit the the armed forces' ability to act. A lack of insight into digital possibilities to carry out attacks is a real risk to the armed forces...
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So You Want to Hire a Hacker?
July 17, 2012 Added by:Ali-Reza Anghaie
The annual "Hire a Hacker!" cry from someone affiliated w/ the Pentagon took a new turn this year with the additional suggestion such hirings would have ended the War on Terror long ago. I'm not here to say don't hire the (alleged) criminal element, however, there are some things I want people to ponder...
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NSA Chief: Cyber Presents Opportunities and Challenges
July 11, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“If the critical infrastructure community is being attacked by something, we need them to tell us at network speed... It requires them - the Internet service provider or that company - to tell us that that type of event is going on at this time. And it has to be at network speed if you’re going to stop it...”
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Dutch MoD Releases Defense Cyber Strategy
June 29, 2012 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
What makes this interesting is that they are declaring that non-combatants may also be actively targeted. In essence, they are putting the world on notice that if you’re involved with a cyber attack, part of a militia or a terrorist, you have a bull’s-eye on your head. No matter where you are. Plain and simple...
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Striking Back in Cyberspace: Sanctioned or Vigilantism?
June 26, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
You can strike back. Hiring your own security team you can discover who broke into your system. Establishing a honeypot, replicating your system and putting in ghost files will this tie up your infiltrators and significantly waste their time, and you can find out more about their techniques and track where they are...
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Cyber War: The Strategic Importance of Defense
June 25, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The discovery of new cyber weapons will be published with increasing frequency, the real question to ask is if the world is really prepared to respond to these attacks. The stakes are high, security is critical for every nation, and the whole world must be analyzed as a monolithic system...
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Cyber Warfare, Budget Cuts and a Shortage of Cyber Experts
June 16, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Despite the increased engagement in cyber warfare, the US must faces a crisis which has inevitable effects on the budgets allocated to defense. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta often has expressed concerns about the possibility of a major cyber attack against the US and its critical infrastructure...
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