What Qualities Required from Successful Cyber Teams?

What Qualities Required from Successful Cyber Teams?

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US military commanders want to test cyber concepts and codify new team structures to optimize success. The Cyber Command is using its annual training exercise this week to codify best practices for defensive cyber teams. Cyber Flag exercise will help identify characteristics of successful cyber protection teams, which conduct defensive cyberspace operations.

430 individuals from 17 teams from the US., UK, Canada, National Guard, House of Representatives and US. Postal Service participate in the exercise taking place across eight time zones. 

The event uses the Persistent Cyber Training Environment — an online client that allows Cyber Command warriors to log on from anywhere for training and mission rehearsal.

The exercise was set in the Pacific region at a fictitious allied logistics support depot where teams had to contend with attacks from two adversaries: One was more advanced and focused on denial and disruption, while the other was less sophisticated and focused on theft of intellectual property and personally identifiable information.

The exercise will allow Cyber Command, which sets general standards across all the services for cyber teams’ training and the equipment they use, to extract best practices and spread those through the cyberspace community, officials explained.

The exercise is happening on the heels of Cyber Command’s budget request that proposes adding more teams and potentially altering their composition to adapt to a rapidly changing threat landscape, according to c4isrnet.com.