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• A suggested approach to CNI resilience
  Protecting our financial bases, power grids, transport systems, communication networks and other key infrastructure has become essential to the security of modern economies and national defence. Yet the situation is plagued with problems, not least because government legislation is often limited and security standards lie firmly in the hands of the private companies who own these assets. Defence IQ contributor and author of ‘Critical Information Infrastructure: Resilience and Protection’ Maitland Hyslop is a specialist in disaster prevention and development. He offers up his own recommendations to how we secure this key vulnerability before disaster strikes…
• Defence upgrades its cryptographic capabilities
  This non-technical article from Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter briefly looks at the history of cryptography through the ages and up to the present explosive growth of communications technology and the battle for cyber security. An overview of JP2069 is included. To view or subscribe the APDR digital magazine, visit www.asiapacificdefencereporter.com.
• Public-Private Cyber Security: defence firms focusing on IP protection
  As the recent Chatham House report on the UK’s reliance on – and failings of – the private sector to safeguard our national infrastructure, it is now more pertinent than ever to assess the data security industry and its progressive capabilities. To find out more, Defence IQ went through the looking glass to discover not only the platforms and services of the most influential gardeners of the UK cyber security landscape, but also the real threats, trends and challenges that keep them up at night.
• Georgian and US banks may face fines for not protecting networks
  Cyber security standards for Georgian and American critical national infrastructure are currently the responsibility of private firms, with both governments only able to ‘advise’ on procedures, despite national defence being at risk if CNI is targeted, but all that could be about to change if new laws are ratified in both nations…
• State of the nation: critical national infrastructure
  What state is the UK critical national infrastructure actually in? What dangers does it face? Are the UK’s CNI safeguards robust enough to withstand the latest attack scenarios? Davey Winder investigates what the likely consequences would be should the new government administration do nothing, or worse, cut back spending in the area of CNI defences. A free subscription to InfoSecurity Magazine is available here: www.omeda.com/cgi-win/elisu.cgi?login&t=uk_edition
• DoD works with industry on automated network intrusion defense system
  The Department of Defense (DoD) is working with the private sector to develop an automated network intrusion detection and prevention system for the defense industry, a Pentagon official told Congress last week. Get more daily cyber updates and a free subscription to InfoSecurity Magazine: www.omeda.com/cgi-win/elisu.cgi?login&t=uk_edition
• Does Europe need an internet kill switch?
  In recent months, worldwide debate has been sparked on the issue of whether a government should have access to an internet “kill switch” – allowing for the immediate ability to shut down parts of the internet in the event of a serious security breach – as national infrastructure finds itself in the headlights of the most likely bullseye for large-scale cyber disruption.
• Stuxnet Cometh: Defence Agencies Prepare for Next Generation Warfare
  The emergence of the 'Stuxnet Worm', a Windows-based malware programme designed to upset and reprogramme large-scale industrial computer systems, has been described by experts as the first recognised 'cyber weapon'. Where most cases of malware attacks have been motivated by financial reward or general disruption, Stuxnet has been clearly designed to target critical infrastructure...
• US Department of Defense Statement on the UK Strategic Defense and Security Review
  20 October 2010 From the U.S. Department of Defense "The U.K. Strategic Defense and Security Review and accompanying National Security Strategy have undertaken the difficult but necessary task of setting priorities and making choices during tough fiscal times. "The U.K.'s assessment of the security threats we all face such as terrorism, proliferation...
• Words Matter, Says UK Office of Cyber Security
  Some commenters took me to task a bit for my recent assertion here at KoW that the US is not in the midst of a cyberwar. My argument – one I’ve consistently made over the last year or so, including again in an op-ed for The Guardian earlier this week – is that words matter [...]
• Former British SIS Agent Warns Public of Modern Cyber Terror Threat
  Nigel Inkster is from the International Institute for Strategic Studies and has served in the British Secret Intelligence Service, focusing extensively on transnational issues, and eventually taking the post of Assistant Chief and Director for Operations and Intelligence. Nigel now serves the IISS in the role of Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk.
• CIA, US Military Step Up Cyber Space Security Strategies
  Cyber space security is becoming an increasingly big issue among the major world powers, with the United States and the UK recently announcing new initiatives in the fight against Web-based attacks. On April 26th, the CIA unveiled the blueprint for the organisation's future. A significant element of this is plans for decisive action on modern challenges like the proliferation of dangerous technology.
• Whitepaper: US Air Force Cyberspace Operations Doctrine
  Cyberspace is a domain. Cyberspace operations are not synonymous with information operations (IO). IO is a set of operations that can be performed in cyberspace and other domains. Operations in cyberspace can directly support IO and non-cyber based IO can affect cyberspace operations.
• IO Journal: Computers as Weapons of War
  Most warfare throughout the two centuries of the industrial era centered on one principal strategic objective: the physical occupation of territory. The possibility of occupying territory, or the threat of becoming... learn more
• Whitepaper: Cyber Risk in Critical National Infrastructure
  In the realm of cyber security , threats are treated in isolation, analysed in separation from the actor behind the attack, or the cyber weapon that is utilised in the incident. This may have been because of a lack of... learn more

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