Last month, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III announced that the Department of Defense (DoD) was releasing a cybersecurity strategy explicitly recognizing cyberspace as a new and official warfare domain.
The Pentagon's strategy outlines circumstances in which a cyberattack against U.S. computer networks could be considered an act of war.
Given recent widely publicized attacks that demonstrate advanced, growing threats in cyberspace, and the creation in 2009 of the U.S. Cyber Command, it is evident that the DoD is beginning to recognize the extreme threat that an organized, targeted cyberattack could pose to national security. With cyberspace as a newly recognized – and extremely complex – warfare domain, our military is now faced with the challenge of defending government networks, and perhaps even critical infrastructure systems relying on commercial networks, just as it has defended land, sea, air, and space.
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