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PostSubject: Here's What Really Worries The Pentagon: Cybersecurity   Here's What Really Worries The Pentagon: Cybersecurity Icon_minitimeSat Jan 09, 2010 10:24 pm
In Washington, “cybersecurity” is a term that’s come to have a
thousand meanings, and none at all. Any crime, prank, intelligence
operation, or foreign-government attack involving a computer has become
a “cyber threat.” But at the Pentagon, they aren’t worried about some kid painting a Hitler moustache
on Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ online portrait. They’re not even
that concerned about a full-scale attack on the military’s networks –
even though the modern American way of war depends so heavily on the
free flow of data. In the military, there’s now broad agreement that
one cyber threat trumps all others: electronic espionage, the
infiltration (and possible corruption) of Defense Department networks.

Well-placed spy software not only opens a window for an
adversary to look into American military operations. That window can
also be used to extract information — everything from drone video feeds
to ammunition requests to intelligence reports. Such an opening also
gives that enemy a chance to introduce his own false data, turning
American command-and-control systems against themselves. How does a
soldier trust an order, if he doesn’t know who else is listening – or
who gave the order in the first place? “For a sophisticated adversary,
it’s to his advantage to keep your network up and running. He can learn
what you know. He can cause confusion, delay your response times – and
shape your actions,” says one Defense Department cyber official.
My report for the Progressive Policy Institute has more.
A few months back, the Institute’s Jim Arkedis
and Will Marshall asked me to put together some thoughts on military
cybersecurity. I don’t consider myself much of a policy guy. But I have
hung around enough folks at the Defense Department working on the issue
that I figured I’d share what I’ve found — even if that risked putting
me on Nathan’s dreaded list of “reporters who heart think tanks.” Read whole paper here. And let me know what you think.
[Photo: USAF]

Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/cybersecurity-heres-what-really-worries-the-pentagon/#ixzz0c3qMcjqb
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