http://gcn.com/articles/2010/05/12/miller-on-cyberwar-051210.aspx By William Jackson GCN.com May 12, 2010 As the Defense Department puts its new Cyber Command in place to defend the military information infrastructure, it also is wrestling with the nontechnical issues of defining cyber war and establishing a doctrine for cyber warfare, a top Pentagon cyber policy adviser said Wednesday. James Miller, DOD principal deputy undersecretary for policy, pondered how the law of armed conflict applies to cyber war. "It's clear that it does," he said, speaking in an Ogilvy Exchange national security lecture in Washington, But the military still has to establish what an act of aggression or an act of war looks like in cyberspace and decide on the rules for responding -- both digitally and physically -- when the line between hacking and warfare is crossed, he said. "We have a lot of efforts underway," Miller said. "We are trying to bring all of this together into a coherent strategy" that will begin coming out in the next few months. He said there will not be a simple one-sentence definition of what constitutes cyberwar, but that it will be an evolving concept based on history and on likely scenarios. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! Shop InfoSec News http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed May 12 2010 - 22:15:48 PDT
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