Lynn Wants Halt to Cyber Sniping
Bot-nets, internet-zombies, industrial spies, and cyber-mercenaries attack U.S. networks every day in the ongoing 21st century cyber war, said Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn.
Defense networks are probed “thousands” of times a day and the frequency and sophistication of those attacks are increasing exponentially.
“This is not some future threat, the cyber threat is here today,” Lynn said, speaking yesterday at CSIS in Washington. “The cyber threat to DOD represents an unprecedented challenge to our national security by virtue of its source, its speed and its scope.”
Defeating cyber enemies will require developing an agile and nimble cyber “maneuver warfare” response, not a “digital version of the Maginot Line.”
The power to disrupt and destroy power grids and other critical infrastructure, once the exclusive province of nation states, is now in the hands of small criminal and terrorist networks and even individuals.
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