Defending the New Domain: Cyberspace
Abstract
For over a decade, adversaries have exploited large amounts of intellectual data from the United States through cyberspace. The United States relies on cyberspace, a domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures for business transactions, government operations, and convenience. The internet has become a lucrative place for cyber spies and criminals, who can conduct activities with speed, anonymity, and very little oversight by law enforcement. In the late 1990s, the United States discovered a series of intrusions conducted by Russians and named the intrusion Titan Rain. In the early 2000s, the United States found another set of intrusions, this time by the Chinese, and named the intrusions Mystic Farm. To combat these intrusions, the Department of Defense (DoD) stood up Joint Task Force Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO) in 1999 and Joint Forces Component Command Network Warfare (JFCC-NW) in 2002 to conduct Network Operations (NetOps), defense operations, and attack operations to defend and prevent intrusions on military networks. In February 2003, President Bush published the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. The purpose of the document is to secure cyberspace but the intent was for the private sector to defend and prevent cyber attacks on the part of the network that they own and operate. All networks, to include the DoD information network and government networks, depend on the civilian backbone networks. Determining whether terrorist, criminal, or state-supported actors conducted an intrusion is difficult to discern without further analysis of the intrusion, which can take months. This paper reviews cyber organizations, technology, democracy, and law enforcement to determine if the 2003 document laid the groundwork to enable Americans to defend and prevent intrusions in U.S. cyberspace.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 21, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA560175
Entities
People
- Dwight R. Morgan
Organizations
- United States Army War College