U.S. Cybersecurity Defense Assessment

Abstract

In today s global cybersecurity environment, U.S. federal agencies and private sector organizations are engaged in national cyber defense actions designed to protect against intrusion from state and non-state actors, foreign militaries, organized crime, and sophisticated hackers attempting to commit malicious activity or espionage against America s essential networks. The purpose of this paper, which concentrates in US cybersecurity defense as a strategic way of supporting America s enduring national security interests, is threefold. To define cybersecurity defense in a paradigm that is universally acceptable within the American construct; to identify and discuss U.S. cybersecurity defense strategies by examining the progression of America s cybersecurity defense policies and the subsequent Federal agency roles which have developed within the U.S. government configuration; and provides a recommendation to improve America s national cybersecurity defense posture by implementing public-private partnership information sharing programs for critical network infrastructure security within the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) sector.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA589433

Entities

People

  • Darren C. Sherman

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Security Techniques
  • Congress
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyber Threats
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • United States Government
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber