An offensive cyber-force to combat hostile states, terrorist groups and domestic gangs will be set up by the Ministry of Defence and GCHQ, The Timesunderstands. The £250 million unit will comprise about 2,000 digital warriors, with experts recruited from the military, security services and industry. It will quadruple the number…
The Ministry of Defence’s hunt for gamers and amateur coders to become cyber Reserves has led to a massive increase in applications, creating an elite force of specialists ready to support operations using their unique cyber skills. According to the UK Ministry of Defence in an article published on June…
The Italian Ministry of Defence has recently highlighted their commitment to enhanced cyber defense capabilities. In a story published on the Italian Ministry of Defence website on April 30, 2018, the recent NATO Locked Shield Exercise was the focus of attention. Exercise Locked Shields 2018, the largest and most complex…
2016-12-06 By Michael W. Wynne Summary When the large scale computers became the rage of the space race, Univac, then Sperry Univac, and Burroughs reigned large on the scene. Within these companies there almost always was contention as they wrung out 'bugs' in the system. Hardware designers blamed the software…
2016-12-01 By Michael W. Wynne, 21st Secretary of the Air Force Summary It is time to wake up the liability lawyers and truly drive change in the Cyber Security Field. Corporations that are paying weekly or monthly protection money, are really stuck in a belief system that is naive. Its…
2016-11-20 By Michael W. Wynne, 21st Secretary of the Air Force Summary: Academics have known since 1934 that Turing computers were and remain inherently vulnerable to hacking as Godel and Keene Mathematically proved, and confidently expressed that proof in the years following. The times were different; and computers were just…
2016-10-13 By Todd Miller The Department of Defense (DoD) is ambitiously building a Cyber Security force to fulfill its Cyber Strategy. It is a high priority given the network dependence of our defense and national infrastructure and the growth and severity of cyber attacks. “Hunter,” an intelligence analyst with the…
2015-02-23 By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird The Naval Academy Motto is; Ex Scientia Tridens –Through Knowledge Sea Power, and that captures the vision for a 21st century Cyber Operations Major being developed at the US Naval Academy. In preparing the U.S. Navy for 21st Century Warfare, the U.S. Naval…
