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UNITED STATES MILITARY INFORMATION SECURITY
Overview
Overview The Importance of Military
Information Security US Defense Information Systems
Agency United States Cyber Command Future Military Security Outlook Summary
Information Security
Information Security – protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide – Integrity – guarding against improper
modification or destruction and ensures authenticity.
Confidentiality – preserving authorized restrictions on access, including protecting personal privacy.
Availability – ensuring timely and reliable access.
Information Security
Military Importance
In the beginning – written correspondence.
Developing - Wireless Radio and Telegraph coding
Current – Total System Information Security
US Defense Information Security Agency (DISA)
12 May 1960 - Defense Communications Agency (DCA) established by Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates.
25 June 1991 – became the DISA and the Global Information Grid was designed.
16,000 employees that support all USMilitary branches.
SIPRNET – Secret Internet Protocol Router Network Forge.mil – fashioned after sourceforge.net
Global Information Grid
United States Cyber Command 23 June 2009 – established under the
U.S. Strategic Command by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates
Assumed responsibility for the DISA Headquartered in Ft. Meade,
Maryland
United States Cyber Command
5 Strategic Pillars1. Treat Cyber as a domain2. Employ more active defenses3. Support the Department of
Homeland Security in protecting critical infrastructure networks
4. Practice collective defense with allies
5. Reduce the advantages attackers have
Military Information Security Future
Defining international cyberspace domain legalities
Similar to international nuclear situation?
Russians and Chinese interested in cyber weapons such as destructive viruses
Beginnings of Terrorist Involvement Overall Internet Security
Development
Summary
Overview The Importance of Military
Information Security US Defense Information Systems
Agency United States Cyber Command Future Military Security Outlook Summary
Questions?
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/3542
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=64682
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/cyber/docs/infosec.htm