National Guard task force that supports Cyber Command changes over February 12 The 123rd Cyber Protection Battalion is taking its turn to support Task Force Echo V and U.S. Cyber Command.(Army Cyber Command) WASHINGTON The Army recently announced a new tranche of National Guard units to staff a critical and ongoing task force for U.S. Cyber Command. Members of the 123rd Cyber Protection Battalion made up of guardsmen from Illinois, Minnesota, Virginia and Wisconsin – relieved the 15-month deployment of the 124th Cyber Protection Battalion for Task Force Echo, an Army announcement said. The task force was described at its outset in 2017 as the largest mobilization of reserve forces in cyberspace, and to date over 600 National Guardsmen have been assigned to it. Now in its fifth iteration, soldiers will begin a 12-month deployment based at Fort Meade in Maryland.
Pentagon’s weapon tester pushes for better assessments of offensive cyber tools January 14 In its annual report, DOT&E outlined the challenges of assessing offensive cyber capabilities. (U.S. Cyber Command Public Affairs) WASHINGTON The Department of Defense weapon tester wants to improve the way the Pentagon assesses tools and capabilities for offensive cyber operations that disrupt or destroy enemy data systems. Such operations are growing more important, and testing that involves simulating realistic operations is not routine or rigorous enough to give commanders confidence the capabilities will work as designed, according to the annual report on weapons systems from the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation office.
what s the threat? well, it means that the north korean nuclear threat and missile threat has been improving over the source of the so-called talks between the united states and north korea. that directly impacts the united states as well as our allies and americans in the region. but what it also means is that president trump needs to directly engage with leaders like xi jinping and vladimir putin and other members of the security council on how to hold north korea accountable and how to close things like sanctions loopholes that the chinese have been helping the north koreans manipulate throughout the course of these negotiations. and finally, president trump needs to sit down with his national security council and decide how he can try to pressure north korea to stop this provocative behavior. we do have other options than just talking to the north koreans like, for example, offensive cyber capabilities. there are a lot of tools in the tool kit that president trump has been retice
they continue tootd it. they re going to they tried it in 2018 after the 2016 election. they re going to try it in 2020. you say the consequences were low enough. as far as i can tell, the consequences nonexistent. one thing stated yesterday was that russia helped the trump campaign, welcomed it. to an extend people lied about it. in a line of questioning there was suggesting is this the new normal that campaigns can just accept this with no consequence and the special counsel said yes, i fear it. he did. and to pick up on something mike said. it s not just other nation states. let s think north korea and others with good cyber capacity. but it s rogue actors too. i mean, a lot of people are really good at disinformation activity and offensive cyber. i worry a lot. so back to what s going on now, there is a little bit of good news.
previous election. what s different, it s likely, the train set up their game. they do have a very comprehensive capacity. they want to put a lot of resources on it. that may be what has got our intelligence people s attention, and certainly what grabbed the president. shannon: what he says, they are trying to interview to hurt him politically because of what he is doing with regards to trade. china s foreign minister responding, saying that we have not interfered and we refuse to accept any unwarranted accusations. i d be surprised if we had any evidence to that. it s possible we do. i suspect that s an assumption that is being made. maybe a very valid assumption at that. obviously, a major trade war with china focused on tariff relief, et cetera. i think this issue, offensive cyber, is worthy of concern to the country. we just changed policies to permit us to use offensive cyber