Recently President-elect Trump has called for moving the cyber defense mission to the Department of Defense, where it can not only be integrated with the cyber offense mission, but a place where the technical and management resources exist to deal effectively with the problems.
It is absolutely essential to move U.S. cyber strategy beyond the CIO in order to reduce U.S. cyber risk.
Now big-time crime is moving to the cyber world, offering large rewards with less risk of capture.
By changing the platform on-the-fly, TALENT creates a cyber moving target and significantly raises the bar for a successful attack against a critical application.
"Meeting on Match" -- or OKCupid or EHarmony or JDate -- has been mainstream for years now, and Hollywood hasn't moved beyond cyber-sex jokes and catfishing.
In today's fast-moving cyber world, he told me, it's not just our computers we need to worry about protecting from malware attacks and infiltrations by cybercriminals.
Through the use of wireless and wired devices with monitoring and actuating capabilities, advanced applications avoiding the human-in-the-loop constraints can be created, thus moving towards effective cyber-physical-systems.
Key western governments have moved from defending cyber vulnerabilities to developing offensive cyber programmes.
There will also be a push to create higher and degree level apprenticeships in "key sectors" — starting with finance and energy; a government funded retraining program for "highly skilled workers" wanting to move into the cyber security sector; and a program modeled on an Israeli scheme that aims to foster cyber skills in 14- to 17-year-olds.
There are less conventional security threats too, from terrorists moving between safe havens to cyber attacks.The second is that quite apart from possible flashpoints in its own region Europe is closer to many of the fights that American forces may be committed to in the future than bases in the United States.
Alexander used the speech to lobby for a cyber security bill moving through the Senate that would make it easier for companies under attack to share information with the government and each other as well as give critical infrastructure owners some reward for adhering to future security standards.
