Information Assurance for Network-Centric Naval Forces
Abstract
At the request of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Naval Studies Board, under the auspices of the National Research Council (NRC), established a committee to examine a wide set of issues associated with information assurance (IA) for network-centric naval forces. Owing to the expansion of network-centric operating concepts across the Department of Defense (DOD) and the growing threat to information and cybersecurity from lone actors, groups of like-minded actors, nation-states, and malicious insiders, information assurance is an area of significant and growing importance and concern. Because of the forward positioning of both the Navy's afloat and the Marine Corps expeditionary forces, IA issues for naval forces are exacerbated, and are tightly linked to operational success. Broad-based IA success is viewed by the NRC's Committee on Information Assurance for Network-Centric Naval Forces as providing a central underpinning to the DOD's network-centric operational concept and the Department of the Navy's (DON's) FORCEnet operational vision. Accordingly, this report provides a view and analysis of information assurance in the context of naval "mission assurance." The growing threats to naval networks and computer systems coupled with the DON's increasing employment of commercial information technology (IT) as a critical part of warfighting systems require the DON to take significant action to reduce its current and emerging IA risks. This will require an IA strategy to guide the Navy and Marine Corps in defining and managing a broad array of interrelated IA activities. It will require that these activities be properly integrated to provide the basis for a naval IA risk management system that can respond to a continuously changing set of IA threats.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA520759
Entities
Organizations
- National Research Council