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Cyber

New Cyber Command Strategy Emphasizes Offensive Operations

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

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New Cyber Command Strategy Emphasizes Offensive Operations

Cyber Command officials are calling their current reactive approach to cyber defense “unacceptable” and looking to move to an operational approach focused on thwarting attacks at their point of origin, according to a new command strategy released March 23.The new strategy document cites the growing threat from foreign adversaries directed at U.S. networks and a need to create an operational framework for responding to digital acts of war.“Achieving superiority in the physical domains in no small part depends on superiority…

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