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OUTLOOK

CYBERCOM AND NSA CHIEF: CYBERSECURITY IS A TEAM SPORT

By Gen. Paul Nakasone
Monday, Dec 6

Many of today’s biggest cyber challenges threaten collective interests and must
be met with continued collective action.

In this era of strategic competition, foreign states use cyber operations to
steal information, influence populations and damage industry. The threat and the
impacts are shared: our adversaries target everyone — government, industry,
civil society and more — and cybercriminals ransom and hold hostage our
businesses, both large and small, and threaten critical infrastructure relied
upon by millions.

In the future, mutual collaboration between the public and private sectors is
required for a safer, more secure online environment for all Americans.

U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency seek to meet this evolving
threat by strengthening our capability, readiness and resilience. We do this, in
part, by playing the away game. USCYBERCOM stands toe to toe with a broad
spectrum of adversaries in cyberspace. We defend the Department of Defense’s
global information network, conduct operations across the defensive and
offensive spectrum, and provide cyberspace options to the defense secretary and
combatant commanders that are increasingly critical in an era of strategic
competition.

NSA’s cybersecurity mission is to prevent and eradicate threats to national
security systems, the Department of Defense and critical infrastructure,
focusing on the defense industrial base. NSA leverages its “superpower” of
foreign signals intelligence, vulnerability analysis and technical expertise to
execute its mission.

Cybersecurity is a team sport: the scope and scale of the problem are too large
for any single organization to tackle alone. The private and public sectors,
including state and local colleagues, must increasingly rely on and complement
one another to combat these threats and improve collective defense.

While the federal government is tasked with coordinating and leading the fight,
more than 85% of the nation’s critical infrastructure, including cyber and
communications networks, remains in private hands. As such, we work every day to
enhance transparency while integrating effectively with private sector
cybersecurity professionals. Together, we aim to achieve a common objective, and
one of USCYBERCOM and NSA’s most important mission areas: defend the nation.

In light of the breakneck pace of disruptive technologies, particularly in
machine learning and autonomous systems, USCYBERCOM and NSA are not alone in
facing today’s challenges, or in the need to identify solutions for tomorrow’s
problems. That’s why USCYBERCOM and NSA’s investment in technical outreach with
academia, industry and international partners is collaborative and already
paying dividends.

Through NSA’s newly launched Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, the agency
engages with the private sector to prevent and eradicate threats to national
security systems, the Department of Defense and the defense-industrial base.
This center shares threat information with our U.S. government partners to
assist in their efforts to protect critical infrastructure, providing a
comparative advantage in its ability to provide actionable, foreign cyberthreat
information to prevent and eradicate cyberthreats. The cyberthreat intelligence
that NSA develops as part of its signals intelligence mission is a key driver in
bidirectional information exchanges.

Working with the Maryland Innovation and Security Institute at our DreamPort
collaboration facility, USCYBERCOM will increasingly pursue “What if?”
scenarios, partnering with industry and academia in the speculative development
of tools and technology. For example, adversaries can use machine learning to
create wholly artificial yet convincing online content, known as “deep fakes.”
To detect and expose this false content, USCYBERCOM must bring its own
machine-learning techniques and capabilities to bear. Manual analysis alone is
insufficient to counter the material generated at the speed and scale of our
adversaries.

The increasingly high-profile threat of ransomware targeting our nation’s
critical infrastructure is another national security challenge that must be met
with a global societal approach. Part of that approach is the DoD’s “defend
forward” strategy, implemented by USCYBERCOM persistently engaging in cyber
campaigns to deter, deny and disrupt adversarial activities. Combined with
contributions from our partners, our cyber effects mission is powerful.

Maintaining a safe and secure online environment for all Americans is a
collective interest; enjoying the benefits of this environment requires speed,
agility and unity of effort. The challenges USCYBERCOM and NSA face today in
cyberspace are not ours alone — from simple cyberattacks to ransomware to
espionage, all of society must defend against malicious cyber incidents. This
evolving environment is a common threat to us and a common cause we can rally
behind.

As threats continue to evolve, so will the innovative approaches we use to
counter them. With cyber as a team sport, today’s challenges can be tomorrow’s
opportunity for shared, successful solutions.

Gen. Paul Nakasone leads U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency.

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