CyberSpace is indeed a "Strategic National Asset” and protected by our United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM).
OPS Risk Managers across the private sector of the USA are dealing with transnational non-state actors (in some cases funded by nation states) that are robbing our private sector and government agencies blind. Stealing Personal Identifiable Information (PII), Corporate Intellectual Property, Defense R & D and classified State secrets.
The commander of our US Cyber Command has an even bigger job; protecting and defending our country's vital Digital Infrastructure. This nexus of criminal, terrorist and irregular warfare is being waged on a 24/7 basis here in our homeland.
So how do you go about fighting this 4th Generation (4GW) war comprised of well organized, decentralized, clandestine subjects operating in the cyber shadows?
This begins with creating an effective Information Sharing Environment (ISE), a fusion of who, what, when, how, where and maybe why. Defending the nation against the physical attacks of the likes of Al-Qaida or the virtual attacks from nation states has some very interesting similarities.
If the USCYBERCOM is going to take the fight to those who wish to copy, delete, probe, scan, flood, bypass, steal, modify and spoof their way across our Digital Infrastructure, it shall be charged with pulling together existing cyberspace resources, creating synergies and synchronizing war-fighting effects to defend the information security environment.
Whether our troops are fast roping out of helicopters or behind the flat screen detecting and analyzing the stealth cyber attack, the approach to defeating the adversaries is much the same.
Infiltrating the "cells" and collecting valuable INTEL on the global enemy is what gives us the "Ground Truth." The commander for USCYBERCOM is already educated on the private sectors role in achieving this continuous and lofty goal of creating more decentralized and clandestine citizen soldiers.
As the private sector battles the non-state actors for preservation and protection of valuable intellectual property and customer data, corporations are simultaneously being attacked by adversarial plaintiff lawyers.
The private sector would enjoy having our government involved in more proactive efforts to seek out and stop these criminal and terrorist entities that prey on organizations that remain vulnerable.
The Operational Risks associated with litigation in the corporate enterprise are here to stay.
If the public and private sector can once and for all coordinate, collaborate and "Share Information", we can disrupt, capture, prosecute and defeat our cyber adversaries…
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