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Army Gen. Keith Alexander recently told a Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association conference that U.S. Cyber Command is on a path to becoming a unified combatant command, Defense News reports. Alexander serves as commander of Cybercom and director of the National Security Agency, with both based at Fort Meade, Md. Cybercom reports to Strategic Command, [...]
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Offensive and defensive cyber teams need to be on the same team, the National Security Agency‘s director recently said. Federal News Radio reports Army Gen. Keith Alexander, also head of U.S. Cyber Command, told an AFCEA conference the military is well-suited to play both offense and defense and has the right personnel for both. In [...]
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Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, addressed hackers at the DefCon conference Friday to pitch his agency as a potential employment opportunity, CNN Money reports. According to Stacy Cowley, more than 16,000 people turned out at the Las Vegas conference. Alexander spoke to a standing-room only audience at [...]
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Army General Keith Alexander, National Security Agency director and Central Security Service chief said the U.S. lacking in cybersecurity infrastructure and overall protection, American Forces Press Service reports. The General said on a ten-point scale, the U.S is at a three in terms of defending against cyber attacks and that improved readiness would put the [...]
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Disagreement over the military’s role in cyber space and litigation concerns are major factors delaying the U.S. government’s efforts to form new rules for cyber engagement, Defense News reports. Zachary Fryer-Biggs wrote May 7 that officials have not yet delegated the authority to protect critical domestic infrastructure to either the Department of Homeland Security or [...]
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Army Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, told attendees of an FBI-sponsored event in January that the U.S. defense network is currently “not defensible.” Amit Yoran, senior vice president and general manager for EMC’s RSA security management and compliance business unit, has come to similar conclusions about computer networks, according [...]
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For fiscal year 2012, the U.S. government allotted more than $318 million to be used in support of cybersecurity integration, development and workforce needs. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, recently shed some light on growing concerns regarding the U.S.’s defense capabilities against cyber attacks. The U.S. [...]
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In October, the director of the National Security Agency wanted to make clear to a Baltimore audience his views on the intelligence community using cloud computing. “We need to go from our legacy databases to the cloud,” Army Gen. Keith Alexander said. Alexander explained that cloud computing offers a better end-to-end view of networks and makes [...]
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Changing law that would demand industry to share more cybersecurity information among companies will not lead to more secure networks, according to AT&T Chief Security Officer Ed Amoroso. When there is talk about information sharing, it sounds great, “like saying you should love your mom and eat apple pie,” Amoroso said at yesterday’s Potomac Institute [...]
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With at least 5,000 new pieces of malware show up online a day, simply deploying a firewall and fixing things when they break isn’t good enough, according to U.S. Cyber Command and National Security Agency head Gen. Keith B. Alexander. “We can no longer depend on a static defense,” said Alexander, spoke at the University [...]
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