Net Defense Blogs

An array of perspectives and messages from thought leaders in the defense IT and C4ISRNET community.


  • Double-counting cyber resources?
    Double-counting cyber resources?

    The U.S. military is making a list of cyber resources, but are planners should be making sure they aren’t counting things twice.

  • Answering the military’s spectrum challenge
    Answering the military’s spectrum challenge

    The broad challenge facing governments and industry is how to meet rapidly growing demands for a finite national resource.

  • NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber
    NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber

    At last weeks’s Warsaw NATO summit, defense ministers designated cyberspace as an operational domain.

  • Accelerating cyber
    Accelerating cyber

    A number of articles talk about the speed in which the cyber domain in changing.  Well if the last couple of weeks are any indicator, someone must have stepped on the accelerator.  I am not just talking about the cyber threat environment.

  • Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities
    Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities

    The Navy and the U.S. military are right in concluding the need for cyberspace superiority. But will that happen?

  • Cyber intelligence – a big issue
    Cyber intelligence – a big issue

    Today many see cyber intelligence as the only possible hope to get ahead and stay ahead of the continuously changing cyber threatscape. Cyber intelligence is relatively new when compared to the practice of intelligence gathering in general.

  • Retaliatory strikes?
    Retaliatory strikes?

    These past few months have caused my mind to spin after seeing two job postings looking for cyber threat analysts.

  • The growing problem of data sabotage
    The growing problem of data sabotage

    Data is a critical component of business, government, our military, and our nation’s economic well-being and defense. That is why it is increasingly at risk.

  • Defining cyberwar: Why now?
    Defining cyberwar: Why now?

    The Senate Armed Services Committee included a cybersecurity “act of war” requirement in the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill.

  • What is sovereignty in cyberspace?
    What is sovereignty in cyberspace?

    Sovereignty in cyberspace is a multi-faceted, complex topic that is of growing interest to many.

  • Double-counting cyber resources?
    Double-counting cyber resources?

    The U.S. military is making a list of cyber resources, but are planners should be making sure they aren’t counting things twice.

  • Answering the military’s spectrum challenge
    Answering the military’s spectrum challenge

    The broad challenge facing governments and industry is how to meet rapidly growing demands for a finite national resource.

  • NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber
    NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber

    At last weeks’s Warsaw NATO summit, defense ministers designated cyberspace as an operational domain.

  • Accelerating cyber
    Accelerating cyber

    A number of articles talk about the speed in which the cyber domain in changing.  Well if the last couple of weeks are any indicator, someone must have stepped on the accelerator.  I am not just talking about the cyber threat environment.

  • Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities
    Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities

    The Navy and the U.S. military are right in concluding the need for cyberspace superiority. But will that happen?

  • Cyber intelligence – a big issue
    Cyber intelligence – a big issue

    Today many see cyber intelligence as the only possible hope to get ahead and stay ahead of the continuously changing cyber threatscape. Cyber intelligence is relatively new when compared to the practice of intelligence gathering in general.

  • Retaliatory strikes?
    Retaliatory strikes?

    These past few months have caused my mind to spin after seeing two job postings looking for cyber threat analysts.

  • The growing problem of data sabotage
    The growing problem of data sabotage

    Data is a critical component of business, government, our military, and our nation’s economic well-being and defense. That is why it is increasingly at risk.

  • Defining cyberwar: Why now?
    Defining cyberwar: Why now?

    The Senate Armed Services Committee included a cybersecurity “act of war” requirement in the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill.

  • What is sovereignty in cyberspace?
    What is sovereignty in cyberspace?

    Sovereignty in cyberspace is a multi-faceted, complex topic that is of growing interest to many.

  • Double-counting cyber resources?
    Double-counting cyber resources?

    The U.S. military is making a list of cyber resources, but are planners should be making sure they aren’t counting things twice.

  • Answering the military’s spectrum challenge
    Answering the military’s spectrum challenge

    The broad challenge facing governments and industry is how to meet rapidly growing demands for a finite national resource.

  • NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber
    NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber

    At last weeks’s Warsaw NATO summit, defense ministers designated cyberspace as an operational domain.

  • Accelerating cyber
    Accelerating cyber

    A number of articles talk about the speed in which the cyber domain in changing.  Well if the last couple of weeks are any indicator, someone must have stepped on the accelerator.  I am not just talking about the cyber threat environment.

  • Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities
    Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities

    The Navy and the U.S. military are right in concluding the need for cyberspace superiority. But will that happen?

  • Cyber intelligence – a big issue
    Cyber intelligence – a big issue

    Today many see cyber intelligence as the only possible hope to get ahead and stay ahead of the continuously changing cyber threatscape. Cyber intelligence is relatively new when compared to the practice of intelligence gathering in general.

  • Retaliatory strikes?
    Retaliatory strikes?

    These past few months have caused my mind to spin after seeing two job postings looking for cyber threat analysts.

  • The growing problem of data sabotage
    The growing problem of data sabotage

    Data is a critical component of business, government, our military, and our nation’s economic well-being and defense. That is why it is increasingly at risk.

  • Defining cyberwar: Why now?
    Defining cyberwar: Why now?

    The Senate Armed Services Committee included a cybersecurity “act of war” requirement in the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill.

  • What is sovereignty in cyberspace?
    What is sovereignty in cyberspace?

    Sovereignty in cyberspace is a multi-faceted, complex topic that is of growing interest to many.