DoD considers building cyber defenses
The idea is to treat cyberspace as a domain within DoD and employ active cyber defenses and other new defense approaches.
General Keith Alexander, head of the Defense Department’s Cyber Command, says the military does not have the trained personnel or the legal authority it needs to respond to a computer-based attack on America – or its allies.
And now he is outlining a series of next steps for the Cyber Command. He is pursuing what he calls a defensible architecture.
Basically the idea is to treat cyberspace as a domain within DoD and employ active cyber defenses and other new defense approaches.
Information Week reports General Alexander hopes the new architecture will create a wider availability of applications and data combined with tighter control over accesses and vulnerabilities
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