Seven Steps to Reducing Your Cybersecurity Risk
By the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare Public Affairs Much of our focus for Cybersecurity Awareness Month is on how the Navy’s cybersecurity is threatened by nation states, ideologically motivated hackers, cyber criminals, and malicious insiders. Our cybersecurity workforce and Cyber Mission Forces battle these cyberspace adversaries every day. …
Getting from Vulnerable to Cyber Secure
By George Bieber Naval Information Forces Public Affairs We are in the cyber fight 24/7. Ransomware attacks, identity theft and online credit card fraud can be devastating, and these are just a few of the many types of malicious software and network attacks. If you’ve never been the victim of a breach, consider yourself lucky, …
Getting from Vulnerable to Cyber Secure
By George Bieber Naval Information Forces Public Affairs We are in the cyber fight 24/7. Ransomware attacks, identity theft and online credit card fraud can be devastating, and these are just a few of the many types of malicious software and network attacks. If you’ve never been the victim of a breach, consider yourself lucky, …
Getting from Vulnerable to Cyber Secure
By George Bieber Naval Information Forces Public Affairs We are in the cyber fight 24/7. Ransomware attacks, identity theft and online credit card fraud can be devastating, and these are just a few of the many types of malicious software and network attacks. If you’ve never been the victim of a breach, consider yourself lucky, …
Getting from Vulnerable to Cyber Secure
By George Bieber Naval Information Forces Public Affairs We are in the cyber fight 24/7. Ransomware attacks, identity theft and online credit card fraud can be devastating, and these are just a few of the many types of malicious software and network attacks. If you’ve never been the victim of a breach, consider yourself lucky, …
Protecting Your Shipmates By Protecting Yourself
From Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command Public Affairs Cybersecurity is an “all hands on deck” effort to ensure the nation’s networks and systems are protected against those who wish to do us harm. Last week, we talked about what the Navy is doing at the enterprise level to protect our nation, our Sailors and their …
Enhancing Cyber Protection While Increasing Resiliency
From the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare (N2N6) “…we’re in the cyber fight 24/7, 365 days a year, and our foes in that fight are sophisticated, and technologically advanced, and they are very well resourced, and they are focused on penetrating our systems.” – Adm. John Richardson Chief of …
Cyber Adversaries Threaten Our Security
From Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare (N2N6) Although cybersecurity is important every day, October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month provides the Navy with the opportunity to highlight the critical importance of cybersecurity throughout the enterprise – outlining how adversaries operate, what the Navy is doing to improve its cybersecurity, and …
Protecting Yourself in the Digital Age
By Capt. Bryan Lopez, Retired Space and Naval Warfare System Command Network security in the workplace is of paramount importance to our daily mission, but we can’t forget to protect ourselves against cyber vulnerability in our personal lives as well. Here are a few tips to help: Operating System Updates and Anti-Virus Software One of …
All Hands Need to Practice Cyber Safety
By George D. Bieber Naval Information Forces Public Affairs Cyberthreats come from a variety of sources including nation states, profit-motivated criminals, ideologically motivated hackers, extremists and terrorists. When you log on to a Navy network or system, you’re in the cyber battlespace. If there are weaknesses in the Navy’s defenses, its networks and computers can …