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Of the four types of teams that make up the cyber mission force \u2014 the 133-team cadre of cyber warriors the four service branches provide to U.S. Cyber Command \u2014 cyber protection teams (CPTs) serve as the quick reaction defensive force responding to network intrusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each service also gets to retain a small subset of CPTs to help get at their own service-specific missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maj. Josh Rykowski, mission team leader with a service-retained CPT in the Army\u2019s Cyber Protection Brigade, explained that each 39-member CPT is broken into four sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first, he told reporters during a media roundtable October 11 at the annual Association of the United States Army conference, is a headquarters section, which takes care of the administrative part of managing and running a team in addition to taking care of some of the planning in preparation for a mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, down in the actual team itself, there are two mission elements and a support element with the idea that each element has the same personnel and equipment and can be exchanged as need be and push them out on missions separately if required, Rykowski said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of the actual mission sets these teams perform, what\u2019s different about a cyber protection team as opposed to a network operator or local administers is \u201cat the end of the day they hunt for adversaries,\u201d Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of Army Cyber Command, told reporters at AUSA. \u201cThey\u2019re looking for someone that does not want to be found in our network and that\u2019s what is a core skill that we train in our cyber protection teams.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CPTs can be thought of as quick reaction forces to assist local owners and are not meant to remain on the network for an extended duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I get tasked to go support a mission owner, no matter who it is, they\u2019re not going to give me the keys to the kingdom,\u201d a defensive cyber exercise participant at Cyber Flag, Cyber Command\u2019s annual validation event, told C4ISRNET in June<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m going to have to go through the local defender, their network owner to get my recommended changes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[An exclusive peek inside Cyber Command\u2019s premiere annual exercise<\/a>]<\/u><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReally, I don\u2019t want the keys to the kingdom. I wouldn\u2019t want to become their system administrator,\u201d another defensive team lead said. \u201cEventually, I\u2019ve got to leave\u201d their network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the cyber protection teams, this is a new environment into which they\u2019re entering, another defensive team lead said. They look to the local administrators to see what normal on their network might mean or what might be anomalous behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing an Army CPT, we\u2019ve received a broad range of missions,\u201d Rykowski explained. These include assisting network owners or the local defenders, educating them on CPT capabilities, and trying to leave the network in a much more defensible position, training and vulnerability assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The network operators have a difficult job, Rykowski said, noting they\u2019re on call 24\/7 and focused on vulnerabilities. \u201cWhat we bring to bear is we show up for a short duration with a threat focus. We help them close the gaps consistent with that particular threat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they show up, they bring their own kit that includes hardware (server stacks), software and sensors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These kits provide teams with multiple tools, including: network assessment equipment; host forensics equipment, allowing them to look at the entire network and specific work stations; rudimentary defense mechanisms; plus a substantial amount of storage capability and substernal amount of computational power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The combination \u201callows me to flexibly create tools on the fly from my repository of tools to figure out what my exact setup needs to be when I\u2019m out working with my customers,\u201d Capt. Sean Eyre, a computer network defense manger within the cyber protection brigade, told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These kits are standardized among the cyber protection brigade and for Army Cyber. Across the joint force, however, service has a different type of kit, despite CYBERCOM producing a standard requirements document that all kits must meet standard baseline requirements, Navy Lt. John Allen, CYBERCOM J35 Department of Defense Information Network operations CPT engagement lead, said during a June conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Cyber Flag exclusive: What Cyber Command learns from the annual exercise<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What exists today are four types of kits, each usually with its own specific suite of tools that all meet the requirements. This does present some interoperability challenges, but the command is working toward rectifying those, Allen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CYBERCOM is now looking toward standardizing kits<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Cyber Command moves toward standardized cyber kits<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rykowski explained that they can reconfigure their kits on the fly if need be. \u201cWhen we do that mission analysis … and think through what capabilities do we need to bring to bear based on the network we\u2019re working on and based on the adversary we need to be hunting, we can set those capabilities up ahead of time so we can hit the ground running,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt also gives us the capability to reconfigure it on the fly, so if we do hit the ground and the network may not be what it as supposed to be \u2026 we can reconfigure on site to again bring different capabilities to bear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These kits also have internal defenses that prevent them from becoming infected when plugged into infected networks. \u201cWhile we do connect our kit directly to the network, we have defenses on it to ensure we ourselves don\u2019t get exploited if the adversary is still on the network,\u201d Rykowski said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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