Cyber Attack: The Department of Defense's Inability to Provide Cyber Indications and Warning

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) is currently unable to provide Indications and Warning (I&W) of cyber attacks against the DoD Global Information Grid (GIG). In the cyber world there is generally very little forewarning of a threat. Most of the DoD's Computer Network Defense (CND) actions are reactionary, and will only be initiated once an attack or probe has occurred. To provide adequate warning of potential cyber attacks, capabilities within the DoD's Intelligence Community (IC) must be expanded. By improving the IC's collection capabilities in the cyber world through transformation of traditional intelligence disciplines like Human Intelligence (humint) and Signals Intelligence (sigint), IC will be able to provide I&W of future cyber attacks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 07, 2006
Accession Number
ADA499025

Entities

People

  • D. M. Rock

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Networks
  • Cyber Threats
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Human Intelligence
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Intelligence Collection Disciplines
  • Intrusion
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Local Area Networks
  • Signals Intelligence
  • United States Strategic Command

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Technology Areas

  • Cyber