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DOD’s Cyber Strategy Emphasizes Building Partner Capacity > U.S. Department of Defense > Defense Department News

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In May, the Defense Department released to Congress the classified version of the 2023 Cyber Strategy. Today, the department made public an unclassified summary of that strategy which reveals a new emphasis on helping U.S. partners and allies build their own cyber capacity.

“Distinct from previous iterations of the DOD cyber strategy, this strategy commits to building the cyber capability of global allies and partners and to increase our collective resilience against cyber attack,” said Mieke Eoyang, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, during a briefing today at the Pentagon. “Allies and partners are a strategic advantage that no competitor can match.” 

According to the now publicly available summary of the 2023 Cyber Strategy, the department plans to prioritize efforts to increase the effectiveness of allies and partners in cyberspace. 

“In some cases, the department will work toward this goal by augmenting partner capacity, expanding partners’ access to cybersecurity infrastructure and maturing their cyber workforce though combined training events and exercises,” the summary reads. 

The summary further states the department has also committed, in some cases, to directly helping develop partner capability by enabling functions a partner needs but does not yet have. 

“The department will enhance our relationship with our most cyber-capable allies and partners at the strategic, operational and tactical levels,” the policy reads. “We will expand the total number of partners with whom we engage and integrate these efforts with the wider security cooperation enterprise.” 

More broadly, the summary reveals that the 2023 Cyber Strategy asks the department to address current and future cyber threats by pursuing four complementary lines of effort. These lines of effort include defending the nation, preparing to fight and win the nation’s wars, protecting the cyber domain with allies and partners, and building enduring advantages in cyberspace. 

“[This] strategy builds upon the direction set by the 2018 DOD Cyber Strategy and is informed by years of real-world experience of…

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The human capacity for kindness

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What’s the most inspiring book you’ve ever read? Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman is up there for me.

I’ve always been a natural optimist. It’s a trait I suppose I inherited from my dad, whosecatchphrase in life was: “Isn’t life wonderful?” Humankind struck a big chord with me, after my son Sam recommended it to me, because it is a book full of hope. Bregman explores key events of human history and their previous scholarly interpretations, and then reaches far more optimistic conclusions that we rarely get to hear. The unknown heroes and the rebels with a cause. The book reminds us to see the best in people and in situations, instead of assuming the worst. It also highlights that if we constantly expect the worst in others and in ourselves, we bring out the worst sides of humankind.

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Challenging the idea that we are inherently selfish, innately malicious or immoral, Bregman seeks to show that all humans, on balance, are good people with capacity for kindness. In some cases, he argues, people are corrupted by power, or, as Hannah Arendt expressed it, tempted by “evil masquerading as good” – with catastrophic results. But in the same way that fear and propaganda can be contagious, Bregman writes, so are hope and kindness.

The book also shows that resisting questionable authority is a trainable skill, and one we should all practice. The brave women and girls in Iran, who are risking their lives to resist a repressive regime are one shining example. The people of Ukraine who are resisting Putin’s violent invasion is another example of powerful resistance. We must continue to support their defiance.

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I was particularly moved by one analogy in the book, which showed just how much progress we’ve made in the past few centuries. As Bregman wrote: “If you take the history of civilisation and clock it over 24 hours, the first 23 hours and 45 minutes would be sheer misery. Only the final 15 minutes would civil society start to look like a good idea. In those final five minutes we’ve stamped out most infectious diseases. Vaccines now save more lives each year than would have been spared if we’d had world peace for the…

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Schrödinger’s Hacking Law And Cyber Burnout: Capacity Building in U.S. Cybersecurity

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In 2021, more than 2.7 million jobs in cybersecurity were unfilled. The dearth of cybersecurity experts serving anywhere in government and private industry has been described as a national security threat and an imperative. There are two reasons for this severe shortage of people in cybersecurity: bad law, and missing mental health support. 

First, the bad law–which makes it arguably illegal to learn to be a computer security expert–has a villain’s backstory. In 1986, thanks to policymakers who were overly terrified by a 1983 fictional movie starring Matthew Broderick called Wargames (to be fair, this movie along with 1992’s Sneakers and 1995’s Hackers is beloved among the cybersecurity community), the United States got stuck with a truly terrible law called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). And every day since, every person who’s been recruited to serve as a cyber warrior by the U.S. government has no idea whether they are a de facto multiple felon. There’s no real way to determine whether a CFAA violation has or will actually happen if you’re practicing on almost any computer using almost any technology, because interpretations of that law are up to the individual understanding of any local prosecutor, and local criminal prosecutors do not, in my sadly-more-than-typical involvement in CFAA prosecutions, have a great deal of understanding of the finer points of computer network access. 

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This lack of prosecutorial technical knowledge makes the CFAA uniquely problematic. Most prosecutors and juries can intuitively understand things like assault, drugs, and theft, but prosecutorial discretion in tech crimes, when those prosecutors do not understand the tech itself, means that many prosecutors rely on their emotions and politics to determine whether to prosecute someone under the CFAA. The CFAA, and the lack of technical knowledge of prosecutors combined with the range of discretion it offers them, makes learning offensive cyber techniques a kind of Schrödinger’s felony.

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Computer Security for Consumer Market Size 2023 Comprehensive Insights and Capacity Growth Analysis 2026

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