Situation Room: The Threat Operations Center at NSA, where the nation's top cybersleuths are based. Khue Bui for Newsweek From The Register:
Priority is net 'defense'. As in Department of Defense.
The long wrangle among the US military about who gets to be in charge of cyber warfare and who gets all the resulting pork appears to have been settled. Questions remain, however, regarding the level of America's readiness to take offensive military cyber action against enemies presumably overseas.
Reuters reports that the main decisions on the US military cyber command were announced yesterday at the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed an order to create the new organisation, intended to be based at Fort Meade outside Washington and subordinated to the head of the US National Security Agency (NSA), widely believed to be the most powerful crypto, intercept and eavesdropping agency in the world.
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My Comment: Recent news reports on the creation of a Cyber Command structure have focused on the defensive nature of such a group. But the question that should also be asked is .... will this same group be responsible for initiating offensive operations against specific targets?
My guess is yes ... but it is only when this new command is operating that the true extent and mandate for what it's responsibilities are will then be known.
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