BAE Looks to Attract Government Cyber Contracts

As cybersecurity grows in importance, and the dearth of skilled cyber professionals working in government is accentuated, the government is turning more and more to the private sector to provide cybersecurity solutions. BAE Systems North America is working to position itself as a leader in the cybersecurity market.

“Our adversaries will hide. They have every motivation not to be…

“It doesn’t matter how you define cyberwar,” says Amit Yoran

A central debate in recent months has been over the issue of cyber warfare and whether or not one is occurring presently. Mike McConnell, currently of Booz Allen and former DNI, wrote an article in the Washington Post in which he said that the U.S. was currently engaged in a cyber…

“Joint forces will conduct globally-ranging cyber warfare,” says USJFCOM

Yesterday, the U.S. Joint Forces Command released the Joint Operating Environment 2010 report. The report details the future nature of the operational environment and how it will influence the function and structure of the joint force.

Within the cyber realm, the report sees the continuation of the rapid developments in technology, improving the capabilities of the Joint Force. “Joint forces…

Michael Chertoff on the Lessons from Cyber ShockWave

Back in February, the BiPartisan Policy Center hosted a mock cyber wargame called “Cyber ShockWave,” which examined how the U.S. would respond to a cyber attack. Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff served as the head of the mock NSC during the wargame. This week, he wrote a column for Government Computer…

China Claims US Has ‘Cyber Army’ and ‘Hacker Brigade’

Since the cyber attacks against Google earlier this month, China and the United States have engaged in a “war of words: over cyberspace policy. Over the weekend, China accused the United States of conducting cyber warfare.

The People’s Daily, a Chinese government-run newspaper, said in an editorial:

“The U.S. was the first country in the world to introduce the…

Cyber Warfare, What Is It?

In a report recently published by McAfee, researchers examined the concept of cyber warfare, highlighting a number of nations are actively preparing for war in cyberspace.

As the United States and other nations think about cybersecurity, states will need to develop a common understanding of what constitutes cyber warfare.

Warfare, Clausewitz’s infamous “politics by other means,” is generally defined as a state actor using force against another state or…

July 4th Cyber Attacks: North Korea? Doubtful. Britain? Maybe

The US government has yet to even acknowledge that there was a denial of service attack on government websites as well as private entities such as the New York Stock Exchange and The Washington Post. South Korean delegates are the only persons effected by the attacks to openly accuse North Korea of the denial of service attacks, and that was off the record. 

Representative Peter Hoekstra told the Washington Times last week that,…