Defense Department Aims for Automated Cyber Defense
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A report released on cyber security breaches in the Pentagon is probably what brought on efforts to improve security, as well as increasing collaborations with companies with Silicone Valley.
Department of Defense seniors say they need more tools to improve automation of cyber basics and also that the department needs additional tools to improve this aspect. According to Chief Information Officer (CIO) Terry Halvorsen, the Pentagon aims to promote a fully automated cyber defense system, which will react independently to certain conditions in the network. “I think that is the only way we will keep up,” said Halvorsen.
In addition to the aspect of security, automation would also free up military and civilian cyber staff to concentrate on higher-level work, leaving security to machines. The new automatic tools have not been revealed, but the department suggested that there is progress.
Closely tied to securing the networks is the “cyber economics” discussion providing another motivating factor for rapid deployment of cybersecurity solutions. Today, a threat can spend a fairly modest amount of money. They can be really cheap in their efforts to bring down sophisticated enterprise networks. They can cause that enterprise to have to spend quite a bit more money, by orders of magnitude, in either cleaning up or fixing the problem. Automation offers a way to make it more expensive for a hacker to attack
The department’s budding ties with Silicon Valley helped it create work exchange programs in which Defense Department civilians will spend six months working for the participating firms. For that, the Department of Defense needs to create “baits” for civilian employees, such as alowing them to work in non-traditional hours, so that they can balance their personal lives with the job and so on.
