America’s secret weapon against cyber attacks? Try a new military for cyber crimes

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

It is time for the nation to create a fifth branch of the military dedicated to cyber security with its own service academy. If 2014 was the “year of the hack,” the recent theft of millions of Federal records is a watershed event in our national security. More than any prior information security breach, the sheer magnitude and scope of this cyber event catalyzed the perilous link between our information and our way of life. In the coming weeks and months, much will be said and written about how we as a nation must respond to this growing crisis. Just as the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) was formed in the 1990s to fortify our military counterterrorism posture, our nation needs to build a new approach to deal with this significant threat. There is another, equally critical area where both government and industry must come together: how we prepare the homeland on a long-term basis to defend against a new cyber form of warfare and economic conflict. We must go back to first principles in thinking this through. It is time for the nation to create a fifth branch of the military dedicated to cyber security and for that branch […]

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