The Soldiers And The Sensitive Information The Soldier Possess

With cyber war, nations are able to skip the battlefield. Gone are the days where troops line up across from each other hoping to do damage to the other. Clarke explains that people, industries, governments, companies and organizations can be possible targets and are vulnerable to these attacks. Keeping that in mind should help these targets become defensive minded and shield off attacks before they happen. As we all know, the prevention is better than the

The CSO or CIO should establish policies as to what data is allowed to be stored on mobile devices, what level of protection is required, and what access to internal systems various mobile devices can have. Regularly, these policies are part of the overall data management and access management policies. The network administrator and IT manager usually decide on which tools to use to ensure that password, virtual private network, access control, and malware protection requirements are followed. They may also decide on which types of mobile devices are authorized for use with company data and services. Managers and users are responsible for following these policies. It is tempting for employees to use personal devices with forbidden data and

While, the second method is building (Army App) store with fixed wireless distance and using a special electronic equipment that suited for, the General Army Care and instructors [21]. On the other hand, classified capability of Control MD like Secret Blackberry, secure iPad, TIPSPIRAL(NSA) all equipped with information assurance certification and Accreditation process provide real time access, reliable success decisions and remote scanning and special access key like sensors, cards or fingerprint with independent multi-layer encryption, to prevent security preaches [24].

This is the greater context facing the U.S. Army’s 516th Signal Brigade based in Hawaii. The 516th Signal Brigade consists of 2,500 soldiers and federal employees responsible for the installation, operation, and defense of tactical and strategic information technology (IT) networks for the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater (from Japan to Alaska). Every day the 516th Signal Brigade must defend against cyber-attacks, provide IT service support to many thousands of users, and remain prepared to deploy quickly its mobile communications teams in the event of conflict or a natural disaster. However, during my tenure within the brigade from 2013-2015, I discovered

The inappropriate disclosure or misuse of sensitive information by an employee may result in financial considerations and legal consequences for an organization. “Mobile devices provide all kinds of new scenarios for business data to go missing, be shared with others, or be stolen. You need to go into BYOD thinking this way, not just for everyday activity, but also when employees move on from your organization” (Arnold, n.d.).

On 22 January 2013, General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff released a white paper describing his vision for the Joint Information Environment (JIE) and how it would support operations in the years to come.1 This mandated transition is driving a reassessment of the most appropriate command and control (C2) structure to conduct operations within the domain. Attempts to achieve a standardized fully interoperable environment will only achieve limited success due to the innate variability and changing nature of technology, exacerbated by service unique capabilities and requirements as well as inconsistent funding. Existing C2 models either fail to address the uniqueness of operations in the cyber domain or otherwise fail to

Today’s technology-based society is plagued with an over abundance of mobile devices. These devices now control our homes, our transportation, and our

Adesina, A. O., Agbele, K. K., Februarie, R., Abidoye, A. P., & Nyongesa, H. O. (2011). Ensuring the security and privacy of information in mobile health-care communication systems. South African Journal of Science, 107(9), 26-32.

Cyber-space and cyber-warfare are two terms that have varied definitions from between agencies and institutions. Since there are varying definitions of cyber-space it is important to accurately define the new digital domain where cyber-warfare will take place. A comprehensive definition of cyberspace explicated by Thomas Wingfield states,

Most nations today fear terror attacks that include bombing use of reinforcements like machines guns and other firearms. This is because terror attacks most of the times leave many people dead and others disabled while others are left without families. However, there is another attack today in many nations that can be destructive like a terror attack and this is the cyber-attack and threats. Cyber-attacks can be responsible for large mass destructions by making all systems connected to cyber networks fail to work (Rhodes 20). An example is the Morris worm that affected the world cyber infrastructures and caused them to slow down to a position of being impractical. Therefore, as a result of these cyber-attacks resources are being established and designed to help counter the attacks.

Apple claims that the security policies for the phone relate to a physical object which can, therefore, be lost or misappropriated and consequently the physical device requires heightened security protocols;

The branches of the military, for a couple generations, have always been the Army, Navy, Air force, Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard; however, in an ever evolving digital world, the notion that outer space would be the next military front is being rapidly replaced by the idea that cyber space will be the next arms race. The United States has been defending attacks on their infrastructure day after day, night after night, when one hacker on one side of the world sleeps, another takes their place to attempt to compromise the US government. The motives may range from a political ‘hacktivist’ trying to prove a point, to an economic spy, trying to gain a competitive edge on its more upstart rivals, to an attempt to control the United States

In addition to the threats and vulnerabilities inherited with wired local area networks (LAN) there are many more risks associated with the use of wireless and mobile technologies. The use of laptops, smartphones, and tablets create vulnerabilities that can fall outside our network securities measure. Attackers will be able to bypass the firewalls and gain direct access to the doctor’s data. Once an intruder has access to the network the intruder will be able to launch denial of service

Creating a robust mobile device policy is necessary to protect companies. For example, the policy must address securing company data and address legal liability (Choilawala, 2014). Therefore, it is critical to involve multiple departments, such as Information Technology (IT), Human Resources (HR), and Security, in building and developing the policy. Involving multiple departments provides various perspective to ensure business needs and goals are aligned. Common organization goals relate to increasing workforce size and enhancing employee productivity (Meyer, 2016).

Hello reader. I have chosen the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has held a conference every year since 1980 to touch on major points going around the cyber security career fields and fields alike. Upon review of the call for papers section of their website; some topics stood out and interested me greatly. The first topic I would like to go over would be mobile and web security and privacy. Mobile computing has risen exponentially in the past decade. We find that more and more users are turning to smartphones and tablets instead of desktops to take care of personal and business related tasks. While completing important tasks while on a bus or metro transit seems nice, the reality is that people are putting sensitive information at risk if they do not properly protect themselves. According to the French telecommunications equipment company Alcatel-Lucent, an estimated 16 million mobile devices worldwide were infected by malicious software in 2014. This figure only accounts for infected mobile devices whilst another 5.2 million smartphones were lost or stolen in the United States alone in 2014. Back to the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy; they had a workshop specifically for mobile security threats and technology that will better assist us in preventing statistics like the ones mentioned above. Their workshop is called ‘Mobile Security Technologies’ or MoST. Mobile Security Technologies (MoST) aims at bringing together