By U.S. Cyber Command Historian
/ Published May 21, 2021
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md --
United States Cyber Command celebrates its eleventh birthday on 21 May 2021. In the year since its 10th anniversary, USCYBERCOM has met significant challenges – chief among them COVID-19. The pandemic impacted USCYBERCOM, but did not stop its people or its mission. Among other accomplishments, USCYBERCOM enabled the defense of the 2020 elections, and played a key role in the whole-of-government response to the SolarWinds breach.
USCYBERCOM partnered with the National Security Agency in the Election Security Group, which ensured that intelligence and cyberspace operations supported whole-of-nation efforts to harden defenses and disrupt foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. elections. As part of a broader government effort, the ESG worked with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the National Guard Bureau, sharing information about incidents with the speed of relevancy to enable defense across all 54 states and territories.