Options for Addressing Air Force Cyber Needs in the Face of Limited Resources

Abstract

The Air Force is facing growing cyber resource requirements and must find innovative ways to free up manpower and money in the face of sequestration. This paper provides two options for freeing up cyber resources while maintaining or improving the Air Forces cybersecurity posture. The first option is to engineer a solution for network security based on Googles BeyondCorp solution. The core tenet of this solution is the elimination of trusted network segments and reliance on device and user identity management to provide a tiered trust solution for accessing secured resources. The second option advocates for increased speed of adoption of cloud solutions and Joint Information Environment enterprise solutions such as Defense Enterprise Email.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 14, 2018
Accession Number
AD1098460

Entities

People

  • Martin Jennings

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyber Protection
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Data Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Protocols
  • Procurement
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Cyber