{"id":35745,"date":"2017-08-01T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T14:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/08\/01\/what-is-the-army-doing-to-secure-and-defend-its-cyber-terrain\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:14:07","slug":"what-is-the-army-doing-to-secure-and-defend-its-cyber-terrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2017\/08\/01\/what-is-the-army-doing-to-secure-and-defend-its-cyber-terrain\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Army doing to secure and defend its cyber terrain?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>This is part six of a series exploring the differences between military cyber forces, capabilities, mission sets and needs<\/i>.&nbsp;<i>For previous installments, see&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthdomain.com\/workforce\/career\/2017\/07\/25\/heres-how-dod-organizes-its-cyber-warriors\/\">part one<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthdomain.com\/cyber\/2017\/07\/27\/heres-how-cyber-service-components-cybercom-mission-sets-differ\/\">part two<\/a><a>,&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthdomain.com\/it-networks\/2017\/07\/27\/whats-the-difference-between-cyber-and-it\/\">part three<\/a><a>,&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthdomain.com\/dod\/air-force\/2017\/07\/28\/heres-how-the-air-force-is-fighting-in-the-cyber-domain\/\">part four<\/a><a> and <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthdomain.com\/dod\/navy\/2017\/07\/31\/navy-applies-a-layered-defense-approach-in-cyberspace\/\">part five<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to being the direct service link for U.S. Cyber Command, Army Cyber Command, or ARCYBER, has a mission set in cyberspace for the Army that is much more expansive than just the man, train and equip cyber mission force USCYBERCOM contribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army Cyber Command is in charge of operating, maintaining and defending the Army\u2019s portion of the DoD Information Networks, managing all endpoints for the service. In this role, ARCYBER conducts DoDIN operations, which ARCYBER\u2019s commander, Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, described in congressional testimony&nbsp;as the most complex and important operations they perform, which includes defensive and offensive operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This includes \u201cbuilding, operating, defending, and maintaining the Army\u2019s portion of the DoDIN. Our five Regional Cyber Centers conduct DoDIN operations around-the-clock, serving as the Army\u2019s Cybersecurity Service Providers (CSSP),\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army also recently underwent a reorganization that placed the Network Enterprise Technology Command under ARCYBER to \u201cbetter align responsibilities and authorities to support USCYBERCOM and Army requirements and to better align roles and responsibilities for the Army\u2019s portion of\u201d the DoDIN, Nakasone wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, in concert with ARCYBER and the CIO\/G-6 shop, the Army is looking to modernize its network with key deliverables such as the Joint Regional Security Stacks \u2014&nbsp;managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency and under the guise of DoD\u2019s Joint Information Environment \u2014&nbsp;and Multiprotocol Label Switching upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the separate CMF&nbsp;efforts the Army is working is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/articles\/army-stands-up-defensive-cyber-operations-program-office\">defensive cyber program office<\/a> that stood up recently. \u201cWe\u2019ll essentially take marching orders from ARCYBER,\u201d Brig. Gen. Patrick Burden, commander of Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Solutions, said at the annual C4ISRNET Conference regarding defensive cyber. He said they are delivering defensive cyber capabilities to the Army through the defensive cyber program office responding to operational needs that are out there today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve already developed some of those needs or are supporting the preparation of those needs in support of the short-term cyber protection teams in the way of big data analytics,\u201d he added. \u201cThe key to ensuring that we continue to have the firepower and capability to fight and win, I think, will be predicated on ensuing we have a strong network, a defendable network and tools that we\u2019ll be able to actively monitor that network.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army Central has also devised its own cyberspace strategy with the idea being that they want to build a cyber workforce that surrounds the organic ARCENT workforce \u2014&nbsp;and is not necessarily the cyber forces nestled within Army Cyber Command \u2014&nbsp;identifying soldiers currently working in some cyberspace capacity to bridge the gap until cyber soldiers are specifically assigned to ARCENT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ARCENT staff must understand what the teams within Army Cyber Command \u2014&nbsp;cyber protection teams, national mission teams, cyber support teams \u2014&nbsp;do to better understand their role in the event of a crisis, said Lt. Col. Dwyke Bidjou, deputy chief of staff of information operations for ARCENT. \u201cThe staff needs to understand what capacities are organic and how to request capabilities needed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, when conducting cyberspace operations it is important the force understands operations aren\u2019t just G-6 efforts, per se, but there must be coordination within the entire workforce to understand the components an operation involves, be it offensive, defensive or a DoDIN operation. ARCENT is working with CENTCOM, Headquarters of the Army, the Army Cyber Center of Excellence and Training and Doctrine command to refine the Army service component command requirements for cyber operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Army\u2019s Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, or ASA(ALT), is heading up the service\u2019s efforts to harden weapon systems, as mandated by the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act<mark>,<\/mark> the Army\u2019s cyber directorate housed at the Pentagon \u2014 the&nbsp;Department of the Army Management Office for Cyberspace Operations (DAMO-CY) \u2014&nbsp;is playing a role in this effort as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Col. 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