Overview: The problems facing the United States military and government in cyberspace are threat and vulnerability proliferation in our critical infrastructure and national security systems. Strategic thinking about cyberspace needs to move left of threat. Instead of having a reactive strategy, strategic guidance needs to be proactive.

It is conventional wisdom that typical defense-in-depth measures for cybersecurity are breached on a daily basis. From its inception, security has been an afterthought in the design of software and hardware. America is vulnerable because of our dependence on insecure technology infrastructure dependencies.

According to a 2013 Defense Science Board report, hackers have breached the designs of more than two dozen weapons systems. The report's authors state that the widespread theft of intellectual property from the DOD and US industrial base, could position prospective adversaries with the knowledge needed to employ countermeasures to advanced US military systems, and also shorten a given adversary's research and development timelines for such countermeasures. Until our nation becomes more resilient and defended on the cyber front, a lot of the technologies and organizational changes to allow for the emergence of a third offset may not be attractive.

In 2017 the DSB recommended the creation of a "Cyber-Resilient" 'Thin Line' of Key U.S. Strike Systems: The DoD must devote urgent and sustained attention to boosting the cyber resilience of select U.S. strike systems (cyber, nuclear, non-nuclear) and supporting critical infrastructure in order to ensure that the United States can credibly threaten to impose unacceptable costs in response to even the most sophisticated large-scale cyber attacks.

In the early years of airpower, the US Air Force shaped an aerospace industry. The rapid pace of technological change involving partnerships between the military and industry influenced the development of airframe designs and engines. In cyberspace today, similar partnerships can be forged between the military and industry to enhance the design and development of secure software and hardware. Moreover, security should be designed in from the start. We still may be able to create a small piece of cyber in which we can operate with impunity - but this will not scale to the whole net. If we do create it, we won't want it to scale, as the objective will be to keep others out.

The password to register is conflict22 .Will need base access.

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Location: Air Force Cyber College at Maxwell AFB

Address: Montgomery, AL

Start Time: 09:00AM

End Time: 05:00PM

Registration Closes On: 5/22/2018 09:00AM

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