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Alexander: Situational Awareness Big Hurdle For Cyber Command

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Friday, June 4th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford The head of the new Cyber Command said developing better situational awareness over the military's computing networks is one of his primary challenges. Two weeks after the sub-unified military command's activation, Commander Army Gen. Keith Alexander said U.S. cyber networks "face a dangerous combination of known and unknown vulnerabilities, strong adversary capabilities, and weak situational awareness." Thus, his short-term to-do list in the military realm is to help define requirements for improving situational awareness of networks used…

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