United States Military Information Security

UNITED STATES MILITARY INFORMATION SECURITY

Overview

Overview The Importance of Military

Information Security US Defense Information Systems

Agency United States Cyber Command Future Military Security Outlook Summary

Information Security

Information Security – protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide – Integrity – guarding against improper

modification or destruction and ensures authenticity.

Confidentiality – preserving authorized restrictions on access, including protecting personal privacy.

Availability – ensuring timely and reliable access.

Information Security

Military Importance

In the beginning – written correspondence.

Developing - Wireless Radio and Telegraph coding

Current – Total System Information Security

US Defense Information Security Agency (DISA)

12 May 1960 - Defense Communications Agency (DCA) established by Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates.

25 June 1991 – became the DISA and the Global Information Grid was designed.

16,000 employees that support all USMilitary branches.

SIPRNET – Secret Internet Protocol Router Network Forge.mil – fashioned after sourceforge.net

Global Information Grid

United States Cyber Command 23 June 2009 – established under the

U.S. Strategic Command by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates

Assumed responsibility for the DISA Headquartered in Ft. Meade,

Maryland

United States Cyber Command

5 Strategic Pillars1. Treat Cyber as a domain2. Employ more active defenses3. Support the Department of

Homeland Security in protecting critical infrastructure networks

4. Practice collective defense with allies

5. Reduce the advantages attackers have

Military Information Security Future

Defining international cyberspace domain legalities

Similar to international nuclear situation?

Russians and Chinese interested in cyber weapons such as destructive viruses

Beginnings of Terrorist Involvement Overall Internet Security

Development

Summary

Overview The Importance of Military

Information Security US Defense Information Systems

Agency United States Cyber Command Future Military Security Outlook Summary

Questions?

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/3542

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=64682

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command

http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/cyber/docs/infosec.htm