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Trump sends cyberwar strategy to Congress

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President Donald Trump has sent a cyberwarfare policy to Congress that should outline how the administration will tackle some of the field’s most vexing issues – including launching hacking operations and deterring adversaries. Trump enclosed the document, which was not made public, in a letter Thursday to the House and Senate committees that oversee the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, and State. The fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act tasked the White House with developing a “multi-prong” cybersecurity policy covering defensive and offensive operations. The policy should include measures to defend against “cyber activities that are carried out against infrastructure critical to the political integrity, economic security, and national security of the United States,” the NDAA states. The White House policy is one of several new cybersecurity measures mandated by the NDAA, including a requirement that the Pentagon more closely communicate with Congress on sensitive, military-led cyber-operations. The new […]

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Former DoD official: U.S. ‘more and more vulnerable’ to cyberattacks

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Vital U.S. industries like banking and telecommunications are more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks; the military systems that ought to deter such incursions are themselves susceptible to hackers; and in any case, not all of the actors who will soon be capable of launching such destructive online strikes can be deterred. That’s the scary takeaway from remarks Tuesday by former Pentagon cybersecurity policy chief James N. Miller. “I don’t see the vulnerability of U.S. critical infrastructure peaking,” Miller told an audience at the Brookings Institution,”I see it going up and up and up.” The vulnerabilities that potentially affect the military  — not only in Pentagon systems themselves but also in civilian ones like the power grid that the troops rely on — are getting so severe that Miller and his colleagues on the Defense Science Board believe U.S. security is at risk. “Down the road, I don’t see it as the case today, but down the […]

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