Download or read book Wing Level Mission Assurance for a Cyber Contested Environment written by Don Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors offer ways to help wings assure their missions despite cyber attacks, focusing on how wings can maintain situational awareness, defend their systems, and respond to and recover from attacks to survive and operate when under cyber attack.
Download or read book Cyber Mission Assurance written by Michael D. Pritchett and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mission Defense Team Training Gap Analysis written by Philipp M. Wittmaack and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the rapid advancement of technology, Air Force missions are becoming increasingly dependent on cyberspace. These dependencies on networks and computers open up new attack vectors adversaries can exploit to put our missions at risk. Aware of this threat, U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) created defensive teams under the Cyber Mission Force (CMF) construct to protect missions and defeat adversaries in cyberspace. Cyberspace Protection Teams (CPTs) stood up under CMF with the purpose of augmenting our traditional defensive measures and defending priority networks against priority threats (Kirschbaum, 2019). However, CPTs have a limitation. They are not permanently assigned to any one mission set and are often walking in blind to new networks as their tasking process dictates. CPTs, while adept at techniques for tracking down adversaries, have a big challenge in becoming familiar with a new environment making it very difficult to baseline “normal” operation of a network. To help address this limitation, the Cyber Squadron Initiative (CS-I) was created by the Air Force and then implemented by a Program Action Directive (Headquarters United States Air Force (HQ USAF), 2020). This initiative formalized the decision to “execute wing-level mission assurance capabilities” with a new team type: Mission Defense Teams (MDT) (Air Combat Command, 2020). Wing commanders would now be able to transform their communications squadrons, with a focus on availability and the functioning of a network, into a cyber squadron that also provides persistent mission assurance through MDTs. By staying within the wing, MDTs can now focus their efforts on the Wing Commander’s priorities and spend as much as needed to create an effective baseline – something a CPT cannot do. MDTs, as a new team, need a training pipeline. Air Combat Command (ACC) is responsible for Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) requirements, to include training (Headquarters United States Air Force (HQ USAF), 2020). One might think of an MDT as a CPT that stays in place and naturally leverage the existing CPT training pipeline. This argument, alongside the associated cost savings, might seem like a good idea, but requires proper implementation to be completely effective. MDTs face many unique training and integration issues that CPT training cannot account for."--Page [2].
Download or read book Cyber Squadron Initiative CS I written by U. S. Air U.S. Air Force and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pulls together 4 key Air Force publications on the Cyber Squadron Initiative (CS-I). The Cyber Squadron Initiative (CS-I) is a transformational program to align Air Force communications units to evolving joint and service Cyberspace Operations doctrine, and to support major commands in effectively organizing, training and equipping the Cyberspace Operations Workforce. CS-I will refocus and strengthen traditional Air Force communications units in delivering enhanced mission assurance of wing-level assigned and attached weapons and mission systems to maintain operational advantage across the Air Force's five core missions. AFGM2017-17-01 CYBER SQUADRON INITIATIVE (CS-I) 11 Oct 2017 AFI 10-1703, VOL. 1 CYBERCREW TRAINING 2 Apr 2014 AFI 10-1703, VOL. 2 CYBERCREW STANDARDIZATION AND EVALUATION PROGRAM 15 Oct 2014 AFI 10-1703, VOL. 3 CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS AND PROCEDURES 6 May 2015 AFI 10-1703 ensures all cybercrew members obtain and maintain the certification/qualification and proficiency needed to effectively perform their unit's mission. It applies to cybercrew positions that are designated mission ready/combat mission ready (MR/CMR). It establishes the Cybercrew Standardization and Evaluation (Stan/Eval) Program that supports Air Force objectives and provides guidance on how to structure and monitor a stan/eval program. It also establishes procedures for personnel assigned to Air Force cyber weapon systems. If your organization is not following this guidance, then you are at a severe disadvantage. Air Force has been doing this for a while and they provide defensive and operational guidance that can be followed universally to protect critical computer networks. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. We look over each document carefully and replace poor quality images by going back to the original source document. We proof each document to make sure it's all there - including all changes. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com This book is published by 4th Watch Publishing Co. and includes copyright material. We publish compact, tightly-bound, full-size books (8 � by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). If you like the service we provide, please leave positive review on Amazon.com. Without positive feedback from the community, we may discontinue the service and y'all can go back to printing these books manually yourselves. A full copy of over 300 cybersecurity standards is loaded on our CyberSecurity Standards Library DVD which is available at Amazon.com. For more titles published by 4th Watch Publishing Co., please visit: cybah.webplus.net Other related titles we publish: Network Attack System (NAS) Vol. 1, 2 & 3 Air Force Cyberspace Defense (ACD) Vol. 1, 2 & 3 Air Force Cyberspace Training Publications Vol. 1, 2 & 3 Air Force Cyberspace Operations Air Force Cyberspace Security and Control Systems (CSCS) Vol. 1, 2 & 3 Air Force Cyberspace Defense Analysis (CDA)
Download or read book Managing for Mission Assurance in the Face of Advanced Cyber Threats written by Don Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report offers a foundation for better managing, at the enterprise level in the Air Force, efforts to ensure resiliency of missions to adversarial cyber operations, including suggestions for the allocation of roles and responsibilities of tasks.
Download or read book Air Force Cyber Mission Assurance Sources of Mission Uncertainty written by Ivan Herwick and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Much of the cyber capabilities that enable mission owners to function are outside their influence and often outside their visibility. This situation exists because of the confusing nature of 'cyber', how the Air Force has evolved cyber capabilities, significant institutional disconnects, what a mission owner wants, and the nature of risk management. The consequences of these issues are more than academic concerns as they have contributed to tangible issues throughout the Air Force. At present, it appears that there is a disconnect between the state of cyber capabilities from the perspective of the user and that of key leaders in positions to exert great influence on the future of cyber in the Air Force. While the Air Force likely cannot afford to meet every organization’s desired level of performance, it can ensure that it closes the gap between actual performance and the assessed level of performance -- ensuring that programmatic and operational decisions are based on a shared understanding of reality. Such transparency and shared understanding will also provide additional accountability at all levels of cyber operations. This will facilitate informed discussions that can ensure authorities and responsibilities remain aligned with mission requirements, but still balanced with accountability for performance"--Abstract.
Download or read book Cybersecurity of Air Force Weapon Systems written by Don J. Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Force weapon systems today are heavily reliant on complex software and high interconnectivity to perform their missions. Cyber capabilities enable many of the advanced features (e.g., electronic attack, sensor fusion, and communications) that give the Air Force its edge over potential adversaries. But they also create potential opportunities - and incentives - for adversaries to counter U.S. advantages through cyberattacks.
Download or read book Ensuring U S Air Force Operations During Cyber Attacks Against Combat Support Systems written by Don Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breaking Stovepipes written by U S Military and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Force doctrine inadequately addresses Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security and as a result, the service is improperly organized and trained to secure missions across the domains of air, space, and cyberspace. In response, the Air Force must consider significant changes at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels to provide mission assurance to commanders.An important question that the Chief of Staffs Task Force Cyber Secure (TFCS) asks is: How do we organize, train, and equip Air Force forces to support the five core missions, in and through cyber? By their nature, air, space, and cyber dominance are tied to physical platforms from which the Air Force projects power. Increasingly, the line between physical and cyber has blurred as ICS become a key factor in enabling mission assurance through the basing system. Functional "stovepipes," specifically those of civil engineer and cyber surety, have resulted in ICS vulnerabilities, threating mission assurance at every one of the service's installations.While changes can be made to the way units analyze systems or task organize under a wing, none of that will be effective until Air Force doctrine, both civil engineer and cyber surety adequately recognizes the differences between cyberspace and the traditional physical domains of air and space. The TFCS infrastructure work group should prioritize revising both sets of doctrine to enable the force to view cyberspace for what it is, a digital battlefield that comes under fire every day, whether at home station or forward deployed. Without this revision, the limited mindset of Airmen in the field employing ICS enabled installations and the mission commanders they serve will never change.This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.The purpose of this paper is to influence the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection and the Chief, Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer to direct doctrinal changes that will drive modifications to the organization and training of civil engineer and cyber surety Airmen to better provide multi-domain mission assurance through securing ICS. First, the paper will suggest that the civil engineer and cyber surety views of ICS originate from fundamentally divergent perspectives, which in-turn, have led to the service unknowingly taking on infrastructure induced risk to mission accomplishment such as that illustrated by the opening vignette. The argument presented will offer that the root of this disconnect lies in doctrine. After framing the problem, the paper will recommend convergent solutions to align and alter the organization and training of civil engineer and cyber surety Airmen with the goal of closing the gap and subsequently, enhancing mission assurance. While the vignette offered provides a deployed example, the lessons are equally valid for home station or deployed-in-place missions.
Download or read book Air Force Mission Defense Teams written by Erick O. Welcome and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Air Force core mission areas are vulnerable to nefarious cyber activities and senior Air Force leadership has impressed upon the Air Force to rapidly strengthen organic defensive cyber operations at the base level. Adversaries have proven to deny, degrade and disrupt Air Force weapon systems that enable (1) air and space superiority; (2) intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; (3) rapid global mobility; (4) global strike; and (5) command and control. What organic defensive cyber capability do base level communications unit have to guarantee mission assurance? This paper examines the effectiveness of Air Force Mission Defense Teams (MDT) that are designed to deliver mission assurance through base-level proactive and persistent defensive cyber operations. Through research, surveyed various in-garrison and deployed units that have employed MDTs and interpret their effectiveness based on the following areas; intelligence, tools, training and talent management. Will make recommendations to strengthen MDTs based on research, interviews, surveys and overall feedback from the field. Finally, the Air Force cannot afford to have gaps in defending weapon systems from nefarious cyber activities at the base level. Mission Defense Teams must have a robust cyber defense arsenal to enable the Air Force ability to achieve core missions."--Abstract.
Download or read book The Cyber Edge written by William J. Bender and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has assembled the best Air Force for the industrial age, and it must now transform itself to retain supremacy in the digital age. To effect this transformation, Airmen must think and act differently about how they will face adversaries in 21st century warfare. First, there must be a laser focus on mission assurance across all domains, and ensuring our cyber-connected platforms can achieve success through contested domains. Everything the service accomplishes must benefit the mission. Second, the Air Force must have a trained and ready workforce to meet the core mission requirements today and into the future. The service must consider partnering with private entities that provide services that will free Airmen to engage in more mission-direct tasks. Third, Airmen must treat data as a strategic asset. Placing the right information with the right person at the right time affords us the opportunity to make smart battle field decisions before our adversaries can act. Finally, the Air Force must manage IT at the enterprise level. At the scale of our networks, if we continue to build local solutions to enterprise problems, the service and the Department of Defense won’t be able to sustain the costs. The Air Force must address each of these issues with a sense of urgency if the Air Force is going to adapt to and overcome future threats and adversaries in the 21st century.
Download or read book Air Force Cyber Command provisional Decision Support written by Rich Mesic and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because cyberspace can affect core missions and capabilities, it seems obvious that the Air Force should take steps to establish an organization to address this medium. The details have been difficult to establish, however, because this medium is very different from air and space. The Air Force initially instituted a provisional major command and but has since instead replaced it with a numbered air force, the 24th Air Force, under Space Command. The authors have been involved in efforts to make the missions, tasks, and capabilities of such a command more concrete. Here, they offer observations originally intended for the major command but that apply equally well to the efforts of 24th Air Force: the needs to articulate objectives clearly; establish strategies, missions, and tasks; and develop people capable of ensuring that USAF-specific needs are met. The Air Force must also consider that cyber-related responsibilities spread across the military and other government agencies. But to expand its mission to [beta]fly and fight in cyberspace, [gamma] the Air Force should also advance the state of the art in creating effects using cyberspace.
Download or read book Emerging Roles of Combat Communication Squadrons in Cyber Warfare as Related to Computer Network Attack Defense and Exploitation written by Michael J. Myers and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring Cybersecurity and Cyber Resiliency written by Don Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents a framework for the development of metrics-and a method for scoring them-that indicates how well a U.S. Air Force mission or system is expected to perform in a cyber-contested environment. There are two types of cyber metrics: working-level metrics to counter an adversary's cyber operations and institutional-level metrics to capture any cyber-related organizational deficiencies.
Download or read book Breaking Stovepipes written by Patrick J. Obruba and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Air Force doctrine inadequately addresses Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security and as a result, the service is improperly organized and trained to secure missions across the domains of air, space, and cyberspace. In response, the Air Force must consider significant changes at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels to provide mission assurance to commanders. An important question that the Chief of Staff's Task Force Cyber Secure (TFCS) asks is: How do we organize, train, and equip Air Force forces to support the five core missions, in and through cyber? By their nature, air, space, and cyber dominance are tied to physical platforms from which the Air Force projects power. Increasingly, the line between physical and cyber has blurred as ICS become a key factor in enabling mission assurance through the basing system. Functional "stovepipes," specifically those of civil engineer and cyber surety, have resulted in ICS vulnerabilities, threating mission assurance at every one of the service's installations. While changes can be made to the way units analyze systems or task organize under a wing, none of that will be effective until Air Force doctrine, both civil engineer and cyber surety adequately recognizes the differences between cyberspace and the traditional physical domains of air and space. The TFCS infrastructure work group should prioritize revising both sets of doctrine to enable the force to view cyberspace for what it is, a digital battlefield that comes under fire every day, whether at home station or forward deployed. Without this revision, the limited mindset of Airmen in the field employing ICS enabled installations and the mission commanders they serve will never change."--Abstract.
Download or read book Conquest in Cyberspace written by Martin C. Libicki and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With billions of computers in existence, cyberspace, 'the virtual world created when they are connected,' is said to be the new medium of power. Computer hackers operating from anywhere can enter cyberspace and take control of other people's computers, stealing their information, corrupting their workings, and shutting them down. Modern societies and militaries, both pervaded by computers, are supposedly at risk. As Conquest in Cyberspace explains, however, information systems and information itself are too easily conflated, and persistent mastery over the former is difficult to achieve. The author also investigates how far 'friendly conquest' in cyberspace extends, such as the power to persuade users to adopt new points of view. He discusses the role of public policy in managing cyberspace conquests and shows how the Internet is becoming more ubiquitous and complex, such as in the use of artificial intelligence.
Download or read book Airpower Lessons for an Air Force Cyber Power Targeting Theory written by Steven J. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
