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Army Cyber Protection Teams Building Defense Operations With Mobile Kits

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, October 12th, 2017

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Army Cyber Protection Teams Building Defense Operations With Mobile Kits

AUSA 17 media roundtable with commander of Army Cyber Command LTG. Paul Nakasone and cyber operations forces. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

The Army continues to build the role and capabilities of its defensive-focused cyber operations teams with a greater focus on combating adversarial network infiltration in real-time with new mobile kits. Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of Army Cyber Command, views his defense operations-focused Cyber Protection Brigade as critical to protecting the network against intrusions. He pointed to the 20 sub-unit Cyber Protection Teams (CPTs) as the frontline for utilizing the latest capabilities to carry out threat-specific operations.“If you’re going to…

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