GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Lynn Urges Partnership Against Cyber Threat

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Defense Aerospace

16February2011 2:35pmEST

GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: SAN FRANCISCO --- Government and industry must work more closely together to counter the growing threat to the nation’s cyber networks, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn told information technology professionals here today.

The Defense Department and other federal departments and agencies need to pursue or expand avenues in information sharing, strengthening network architecture, and extending government’s network defenses to private networks key to national security and the economy, he said during a keynote speech at the annual RSA Conference for Internet security.

Lynn told thousands gathered for the conference that the private sector’s role in defending the cyber domain is critical. Unlike the sea, air, land and space domains, cyber is not an area where military power alone can dominate, he said.

“The overwhelming percentage of our nation’s critical [information] infrastructure, including the Internet itself, is in private hands,” Lynn noted. It will take the country’s “vast technological and human resources to ensure the United States retains its preeminent capabilities in cyberspace, as it does in all the other domains,” he said.  (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: US seeks expanded military ties with India, China

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Hindustan Times

09February2011 8:55amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The United States, as part of a new military strategy, is seeking "expanded military cooperation with India" and a "positive, cooperative, and comprehensive relationship with China", the world's "two rising powers." "As military capability and capacity increases in Asia, we will seek new ways to catalyse greater regional security cooperation," said the revised National Military Strategy calling for redefining leadership in a changing world.
The document released here Tuesday is the first revision since 2004 of the ways and means that the military will advance US national interests.

A senior military official speaking on background said the Asia-Pacific will be of greater importance. "There are two rising powers - India and China - and a number of regionally powerful nations," he said.

There may be a migration of US capabilities in the region. "That may not necessarily mean more troops, but the distribution may change," he said. (read full report)

 

 

 

"GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE" is an intelligence briefing presented by Griffith Colson Intelligence Service, and provided to the public for informative purposes only. All subject matter is credited to it's source of origin, and is not intended to represent original content authored by GCIS, it's advertisers or affiliates. All opinions presented are those of the author, and not necessarily those of GCIS or it's partners.