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DoD Commits to Cyber Defense Strategy

2011-07-19 07:44 by
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The Department of Defense has released a cyber defense strategy that focuses on creating a top-notch cybersecurity workforce.

The strategy offers five directions which the Pentagon will follow to combat threats in cyberspace: treating cyberspace as an operational domain, implementing new defense concepts to protect networks and systems, partnering with other agencies and the private sector to implement a cyber strategy, building a cybersecurity relationship with U.S. allies and building up the department's cybersecurity talent.

According to the plan, new cross-generational mentoring programs will be implemented, in order to grow cyber talent for future defense and national security missions.

"Opportunities for exchanges and continuing education programs will be explored by DoD, infusing an entrepreneurial approach in cyber workforce development," the plan states. "Continued education and training will be hallmarks of the cyber workforce, preserving and developing DoD's intellectual capital.

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