"WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - The Pentagon will create a Cyber Command to oversee the U.S. military's efforts to protect its computer networks and operate in cyberspace, under an order signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates."
The creation of the cyber command at the Pentagon is long overdue. In today's information age, it is axiomatic that information is key and the war on information will only continue to grow.
For example, it is not well-known among the public but there are millions -- millions -- of attempted cyber attacks on Defense networks daily. DAILY. Most come from China but a signficant number come from the former Soviet Union republics and Islamic nations. Any one of these would love to poison our military's computer networks.
I was once speaking with an Air Force colonel responsible for cybersecurity, during 2008, and he remarked that while all his colleagues were fighting the enemy of radical Islam, he was the only one he knew fighting a Chinese enemy, and fending off this enemy's assaults, every day. Every day.
I will be commenting more on this signficant milestone in months to come. Suffice it to say that companies with cybersecurity solutions will continue to be very attractive to those defense agencies (DARPA, IARPA, intel agencies) that are responsible for developing solutions to this evolving and very real problem.
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