Cyber

For more than 20 years, experts have warned of the potential for cyberwar. Today, as more countries develop and operationalize offensive cyber capabilities and new geopolitical challenges emerge while longstanding conflicts persist, is cyberwar the serious threat that experts have long warned? Part 1 of this two-part series examines significant historical and recent developments that…

Joint Force Headquarters-DoDIN has been directed to meet key conditions for full operational capability by January 2018.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Intelligence Committee that cyberspace is affording bold actors opportunities to be even more aggressive. “The challenge particularly in the cyber realm, I’ll say, is that there’s kind of an insidious progression of aggressiveness,” DNI James Clapper said at Tuesday’s hearing. “I’ve certainly seen this over the…

The Department of Homeland Security is now providing cybersecurity risk monitoring and response services to 93 percent of federal civilian executive branch networks, according to a Jan. 11 press release. In a statement concerning the deployment of cyber-threat detection and defense system EINSTEIN 3 Accelerated (E3A), DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson reports the digital invader mitigation…

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani finally has a job in the incoming Trump administration. The president elect’s transition team announced Thursday that Giuliani will lend his expertise on cybersecurity issue facing the private sector. The former mayor is CEO of an international security consulting firm. Trump is planning to host a series of…

The presidential inauguration is one of the biggest events of the year, culminating months of hard fought campaigning and celebrating democracy. The event also provides an international stage for potentially malicious actors to make a name for themselves with thousands of citizens, elected officials and government personnel gathered for the parade and day-long festivities. The…

Sponsored by Part 1 of 5. Fifth Domain takes you to a battlefield in California’s desert where the Army is integrating cyber into kinetic warfare. (Daniel Woolfolk/Staff)

Sponsored by Part 5 of 5. The Army is looking for the best civilians and soldiers for its cyber efforts. (Daniel Woolfolk/Staff)