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Keynote Address - Dmitri Alperovitch
December 20, 2016 —

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Cyber Threat Reports 13 Dec - 19 Dec 2016
December 19, 2016 — Army Cyber Institute Cyber Threat Report Tech Trends: Stories and Highlights North Korea's "Super-Secure Red Star OS" can be hacked. Guessing valid credit card numbers in six seconds? Priceless! Innovative Technique to curtail illegal copying. Engineers creates chip just 5 atoms thick. Technical roadmap for quantum computing.READ MORE MORE

Day 1 Opening Remarks - COL Andrew O. Hall
December 19, 2016 —

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Developing Cyber Officers As Operational Leaders
December 13, 2016 — Command relationships are important to establishing operational priorities and unity of effort. IN the cyber domain, these establish relationships that are necessary guides for policy and doctrine, essential to reducing the complexity of war. Admiral Rogers envisions cyber operational doctrine in which cyber forces will act as “supported sometimes”... MORE

How to Grow a Capable Cyber Officer
December 13, 2016 — "Given the rising number of military cyber activities between the U.S. and its adversaries over the last several years, it is increasingly clear that cyberspace is now an intrinsic part of the current operating environment. As the fifth warfighting domain, it is a space in which we fight and win battles, and its criticality to mission success is... MORE

Cyber Threat Reports 18 Nov - 12 Dec 2016
December 12, 2016 — Army Cyber InstituteCyber Threat Report Tech Trends: Stories and Highlights Hackers hunting Hackers. 48% of organizations have suffered ransomware attacks. ATM skimming hit NY hospitals. Mirai botnet attacks thousands of home routers. A new way to anonymize data might actually work.READ MORE MORE

The Most Governed Ungoverned Space: Legal and Policy Constraints on Military Operations in Cyberspace
November 1, 2016 — Winning wars in cyberspace might sound easy: the click of a mouse or the press of the enter key on a keyboard. Yet, the web of networks that constitutes cyberspace is imbued with challenges. Seemingly every day there is a new story of a government, business, or individual, suffering from a serious hack. These hacks are often attributed to state... MORE

Cognitive Engagement in Active CyberDefense
November 1, 2016 — Cybersecurity is traditionally seen as an asymmetrical relationship between adversaries and defenders, however recent research has attempted to reverse this trend by operationalizing cognitive engagement for the purpose of enhancing adversary attribution. In a traditional networked environment, adversaries have low risk (low chance of getting... MORE

Disruptive Innovations to Help Protect against Future Threats
October 26, 2016 — This paper addresses the current U.S. Offset Strategy that focuses almost exclusively on breakthrough innovations to compensate for the smaller conventional military forces the U.S. has in relation to the size of the militaries of its potential adversaries. It explains the four different categories of innovation (breakthrough, disruptive,... MORE

Why PPD-41 is evolutionary, not revolutionary
October 24, 2016 — "The Obama administration released Presidential Policy Directive 41 in July to clarify roles and responsibilities in response to a major cyber incident, but it has yet to be put to the test and questions remain whether it substantially changes what has been in practice to this point.A panel at the Army Cyber Institute's CyCon U.S. conference in... MORE