{"id":20842,"date":"2019-08-20T01:55:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T01:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/08\/20\/cyber-command-changed-its-approach-is-the-difference-noticeable\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:09:24","slug":"cyber-command-changed-its-approach-is-the-difference-noticeable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/home\/2019\/08\/20\/cyber-command-changed-its-approach-is-the-difference-noticeable\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Command changed its approach. Is the difference noticeable?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Cyber Command has been vocal about its new, more assertive operating concept known as \u201cpersistent engagement\u201d for the last year, implementing the 2018 Department of Defense Cyber Strategy\u2019s guidance to \u201cdefend forward.\u201d The concept is the command\u2019s way to meet adversaries on the everyday battleground of cyberspace below the threshold of conflict and while being active in networks all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn this dynamic environment, the United States must increase resiliency, defend forward as close as possible to the origin of adversary activity, and persistently contest malicious cyberspace actors to generate continuous tactical, operational, and strategic advantage,&#8221; military leaders wrote in a 2018 vision statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But is the new philosophy visibly working? Representatives from the threat intelligence industry, who carefully track these behaviors, said it is still too early to tell if Cyber Command\u2019s approach is changing the behavior of adversaries or even private companies in cyberspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAdversaries don\u2019t react necessarily at the drop of a hat,&#8221; Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike, told Fifth Domain. \u201cWhen you start thinking about Cyber Command saying that they have a more aggressive posture, certainly I\u2019ve seen reporting around it. I don\u2019t know how effectively we can measure it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meyers said it could be years until changes in behavior are evident, if ever. He attributed this to the obfuscation cyberspace affords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Cyber Command leaders have said they want so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/2016\/08\/31\/cybercom-wants-adversary-to-know-it-s-hacked\/\" target=_blank>loud tools<\/a> that could be attributed to the United States, akin to dropping a bomb from an Air Force B-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, sources have noted how the command\u2019s capabilities directorate in the past few years has looked at the cyber equivalent of parking an aircraft carrier off another country\u2019s coast as a form of power projection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meyers said he still hasn\u2019t seen any malware with a U.S. Cyber Command \u201csigning certificate\u201d attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cyberspace is a volatile environment and while activity continues to spike, it can\u2019t all be attributed directly to Cyber Command\u2019s new more assertive approach. Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at Carbon Black, has noted a significant increase in destructive attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI do not draw a correlation between CYBERCOM\u2019s activity and that activity,\u201d Kellerman said. \u201cI just think the environment\u2019s become more punitive, that nation states have created cyber militias acting as proxies and there\u2019s a free fire zone out there right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the volatility of the environment, other experts have said that since its creation, Cyber Command has made a difference in behaviors in cyberspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNobody has identified a significant change to adversary operating behavior due to CYBERCOM. The reason is, and it\u2019s very simple, is that adversaries have always been operating in compromised environments,\u201d Sergio Caltagirone, vice president of threat intelligence at Dragos, told Fifth Domain. \u201cWhether CYBERCOM is coming after you or not, it does not change the fact that they\u2019ve been working to protect themselves against the network defenders since the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caltagirone, added that Cyber Command continues to operate from a disadvantage with few ways to project power or fundamentally change the operating environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe only reason that military forces project power successfully is because they dominate the space, the physical space of the wartime environment. They can\u2019t do that in this space, so they are fundamentally in a \u2026 weak [position],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cyber Command has described three tiers to its philosophy of persistence: persistent engagement, persistent presence and persistent innovation. Together, the approach is aimed at developing new ways to either disrupt adversary behavior or impose some type of cost to make adversaries think twice before conducting attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While not directly attributing the U.S. government or Cyber Command directly, given insufficient evidence, Meyers did point to an uptick in leaks targeting foreign cyber threat actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other experts added that regular \u201cthreat hunting\u201d will eventually force adversaries to change their behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It \u201cforces the adversary to constantly innovate and change methods of operations as we\u2019re seeing currently across advanced threat actors, both nation state sponsored and criminal groups. This includes the adoption of living-off-the-land techniques to disguise adversarial techniques and activities that are legitimate user or network activities,\u201d Israel Barak, chief information security officer at Cybereason, wrote to Fifth Domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLooking forward, we foresee this form of threat hunting will increase the risk in price that adversaries will have to endure to sustain an offensive operation, given the constant need to innovate and create new methods of operation. However, since adversaries are likely aware of many of the defenders hunting techniques, we can expect adversaries to take counter measures, including: creating false attribution by adopting someone else&#8217;s or another threat groups methods of operation and adopting methods of operation that typical threat hunting techniques do not have visibility into.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Fifth Domain reporter Andrew Eversden contributed to this report<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Editor\u2019s note: This story has been updated to more accurately describe the relationship between \u201cdefend forward\u201d and \u201cpersistent engagement.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry representatives in the threat intelligence space said it is too early to tell if Cyber Command&#8217;s new assertive approach is having a direct effect on cyberspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":55692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[106,29,32],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3268],"class_list":["post-20842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-brief","category-home","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"MNR3ZSYW7BHGRD4STOMFCBUEUM","arc_canonical_url":"\/dod\/cybercom\/2019\/08\/20\/cyber-command-changed-its-approach-is-the-difference-noticeable\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cyber Command changed its approach. 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