Brian Connett, LCDR, USN
US NAVAL ACADEMY
“A failure by the Department to secure its systems in cyberspace would pose a
fundamental risk to our ability to accomplish defense missions today and in the
future.”
- 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review
“… four key characteristics of cyber space: open to innovation, secure enough to
earn people’s trust, globally interoperable, and reliable.”
-2011 International Strategy for Cyberspace
US Strategic Command
US Cyber Command
US Fleet Cyber Command
US 10th Fleet
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Ubiquitous, overlapping domains
“A global domain within the information
environment consisting of the interdependent
network of information technology
infrastructures, including the internet,
telecommunications networks, computer systems,
and embedded processors and controllers …”
 “… common usage of the term also refers to the
virtual environment of information and
interactions between people.”
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National Security Presidential Directive 54/Homeland Security
Presidential Directive 23 (NSPD-54/HSPD-23)
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Collection of foreign intelligence from communications and
information systems
Use the information to help protect our troops, support our allies,
fight terrorism, combat international crime and narcotics, support
diplomatic negotiations, and advance many other important
national objectives
SIGINT comes from various sources, including foreign
communications, radar and other electronic systems
This information is frequently in foreign languages and dialects, is
protected by codes and other security measures, and involves
complex technical characteristics
The goal is to collect and understand the information, interpret it,
and get it to our customers in time for them to take action.
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The U.S. Constitution, federal law, executive order, and regulations of the Executive
Branch govern our activities
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WE operate under the authority of the Department of Defense (US Code 10)
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Our activities are subject to strict scrutiny and oversight both from the outside the DoD
and from within.
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External bodies provide oversight to ensure adherence to U.S. laws and regulations
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)
• Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI)
• President's Intelligence Oversight Board
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
• Department of Justice
The Office of the Inspector General conducts inspections, audits, and investigations to
make certain that we operate with integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness, while the
Office of the General Counsel provides legal advice
You will be given powerful tools which require that you know, understand, and obey to
the fullest, the laws of the nation.
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Executive Order 12333 (EO 12333) authorizes agencies of
the Intelligence Community to obtain reliable intelligence
information, consistent with applicable Federal law and EO
12333, with full consideration of the rights of U.S. persons
Pursuant to EO 12333, NSA is authorized to collect, process,
analyze, produce, and disseminate signals intelligence
information and data for foreign intelligence and
counterintelligence purposes to support national and
departmental missions, and to provide signals intelligence
support for the conduct of military operations
Most importantly this EO prohibits the collection, retention,
or dissemination of information about U.S. persons except
pursuant to procedures specifically established by branch
leadership and approved by the Attorney General.
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Command & Control
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Communication
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Combat Systems
• Digital Control Systems
• Optimal Control and
Estimation
• Autonomous Vehicles
• Robotics
• Computer Vision
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Computers
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• Embedded Microcontroller
Systems Integration
• Embedded Microcontroller
System Applications
• Cyber Physical Systems
• Computer Vision
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Robotics
Mobile Robot Design
Cyber Physical Systems
Weapons
Intelligence
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Engineering Economics
Emerging Technologies
 Failing
to use these effectively will be the
difference between victory and defeat
 Environments are merging
 Commanding the new environment
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Monitor and be aware of the environment
Manage our emissions
Discretely communicate
Find, track and defeat threats
Conduct attacks
 Surface
and Subsurface, Air and Space
Dominance
J.W. Greenert, ADM, USN
 Sun Tzu
and Plato
• Philosophical imperative
• Self knowledge
• Cyber Warfare
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about how the cyber system works,
its more about how it fails
 Productive failure will only provide
strategic success
 Oil and Energy sector
• Exploits shared hard drives
 Supervisory Control and
• Man-in-the-middle attack
Data Acquisition
 STUXNET
• 1st publicly known malicious cyber weapon from
bytes to physical sabotage
• Cyber Conflict Era begins
• Fire and Forget
• Children of Stuxnet – tailored DNA swarm