Navy Rolls Out CYBERSAFE: ‘Our Operational Network Is Under Fire’ « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary: We are now paying the price of “decisions made over the last 10 or 20 years in which the network was taken for granted,” said Adm. Michael Rogers, the Navy four-star who heads US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency.
“We really never put a lot of thought into the idea that it might actually be contested, that an opponent might actually want to take away our C2 [command-and-control] links, or that redundancy, resiliency, and defensibility were really core design characteristics,” Rogers said at last week’s Sea-Air-Space conference. “It was all about maximum output at the best price.”
Today, by contrast, the military must “operate the network as a warfighting platform,” said Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, head of Navy Cyber Command, “[even though] it wasn’t procured in the way that we’d procure a warfighting platform…. It’s not a service provider, it’s not a support capability. We know that our operational network is under fire every day; we have to defend it.”
