United States Cyber Command ….This Helps To Explains A Few Things About Internet Security!
Posted By thestatedtruth.com on December 11, 2010
What’s the old Boy Scout motto……”Be Prepared”…well it looks like we are!
On Oct. 31, the Maryland-based U.S. Cyber Command became fully operational, and its commander is also the head of the National Security Agency, the premier U.S. government entity for signals intelligence.
“USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.”
In May 2010, General Keith Alexander, the confirmed commander of U.S. Cyber Command, outlined his views in a report for the United States House Committee on Armed Services subcommittee:
“My own view is that the only way to counteract both criminal and espionage activity online is to be proactive. If the U.S. is taking a formal approach to this, then that has to be a good thing. The Chinese are viewed as the source of a great many attacks on western infrastructure and just recently, the U.S. electrical grid. If that is determined to be an organized attack, I would want to go and take down the source of those attacks. The only problem is that the Internet, by its very nature, has no borders and if the U.S. takes on the mantle of the world’s police; that might not go down so well.”
General Alexander was promoted to General and took charge of U.S. Cyber Command in a ceremony at Fort Meade.  Maj. Gen. Suzanne M. “Zan” Vautrinot is Director of Plans and Policy, U.S. Cyber Command, and is responsible for the development and coordination of issues as related to cyberspace operations policy, doctrine, organization, capabilities and requirements.
More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command
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