2Lt William Liggett works at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado July 20, 2010. U.S. national security planners are proposing that the 21st century's critical infrastructure -- power grids, communications, water utilities, financial networks -- be similarly shielded from cyber marauders and other foes. The ramparts would be virtual, their perimeters policed by the Pentagon and backed by digital weapons capable of circling the globe in milliseconds to knock out targets (Rick Wilking/Courtesy Reuters).Defense Department Launches Cyber Strategy Website -- U.S. Department of Defense
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2011 – The Defense Department has launched a new website to highlight its first unified strategy for cyberspace, DOD officials said in a statement today.
Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III announced the department's Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace on July 14 at National Defense University at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington.
“We do not know the exact way in which cyber will figure in the execution of [DOD’s] mission, or the precise scenarios that will arise,” Lynn told an audience of military and civilian officials, educators and reporters. “But the centrality of information technology to our military operations and our society virtually guarantees that future adversaries will target our dependence on it.”
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My Comment: Not surprising .... many are not impressed with this new focus. Read here, here, and here.