The Defense Department is taking more aggressive steps in cyberspace, including clearer authorities, more oversight and a key partnership to identify and address gaps, due to provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2013.
Those provisions in the NDAA, which President Barack Obama signed into law on Jan. 2, require DOD officials to report on cyber operations to Congress on a quarterly basis, beginning March 1. It also outlines authorities and expectations for military forces in cyberspace.
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‘‘The Secretary of Defense shall provide to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate quarterly briefings on all offensive and significant defensive military operations in cyberspace carried out by the [DOD] during the immediately preceding quarter,” the NDAA text reads. It also orders the defense secretary to provide within 90 days “a briefing on the interagency process for coordinating and de-conflicting full-spectrum military cyber operations for the federal government,” as well as future cyber budgeting justification.
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That open-architecture, “plug-and-play” network defense system would need to be available for cloud environments as well as the battlefield, and would need to overcome shortfalls in current systems that “cannot address new or rapidly morphing threats; consume substantial amounts of communication capacity to remain current with known threats and to report current status; or consume substantial amounts of resources to store rapidly growing threat libraries.”
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Those provisions in the NDAA, which President Barack Obama signed into law on Jan. 2, require DOD officials to report on cyber operations to Congress on a quarterly basis, beginning March 1. It also outlines authorities and expectations for military forces in cyberspace.
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‘‘The Secretary of Defense shall provide to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate quarterly briefings on all offensive and significant defensive military operations in cyberspace carried out by the [DOD] during the immediately preceding quarter,” the NDAA text reads. It also orders the defense secretary to provide within 90 days “a briefing on the interagency process for coordinating and de-conflicting full-spectrum military cyber operations for the federal government,” as well as future cyber budgeting justification.
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That open-architecture, “plug-and-play” network defense system would need to be available for cloud environments as well as the battlefield, and would need to overcome shortfalls in current systems that “cannot address new or rapidly morphing threats; consume substantial amounts of communication capacity to remain current with known threats and to report current status; or consume substantial amounts of resources to store rapidly growing threat libraries.”
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