Brad D. Williams

cybersecurity correspondent @breakingdefense

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@andreweversden1 looks back at some interesting cyber stories @BreakingDefense covered in 2021.

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Hunting vulns, from cars to drones: 5 Stories From 2021 https://t.co/i16Ov1Kwjv

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@andreweversden1 provides a nice recap of @BreakingDefense's major cyber and networks stories in 2021.

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@leeferran recaps @BreakingDefense's most read stories in 2021.

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Thank you to all @BreakingDefense readers.

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A note of thanks to the Breaking Defense readership https://t.co/VR3hvUuSCT

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In which @leeferran develops an analogy between DARPA tech and turducken.

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DARPA’s aerial turducken, the LongShot, still cooking towards 2022 milestone https://t.co/7lbtY5rOXv

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VMware's Tom Kellermann linked increasingly aggressive cyberattacks to geopolitical tensions with Russia and Belarus.

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The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability is envisioned to be the Pentagon’s premier enterprise multi-vendor, multi-cloud computing contract.

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"I hear more about IT revolution than evolution these days, but I think IT is more evolution," DIA CIO Doug Cossa said.

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"There's one line that should scare the hell out of everyone everywhere," Chris Krebs said.

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Moore likened CYBERCOM’s evolution from that of a football team where only the offense or defense is on the field at one time to more like a hockey team, where any given line change plays both an offensive and defensive role.

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DoD said it will be "increas[ing] oversight of professional and ethical standards of third-party assessors."

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"Strategic competition is alive and well in cyberspace, and we're doing it every day with persistent engagement," the CYBERCOM and NSA leader said.

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ICYMI: Prior to the Army Digital Transformation Strategy, "What we lacked in the Army was an integrator... a unity of effort to modernize. That's what the DTS is about," CIO Raj Iyer said.

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"The ultimate goal is understanding exactly what is happening on the network, who is connecting, what is connected, and what are those devices and users doing on the network...," Forescout's Dean Hullings said.

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The unified network operations capabilities will provide “a visualization of [the Army’s] networks and its security from the battlefield up into Army Cyber [Command],” Peraton VP Napper said.

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"So I think [the concept of integration is] so simple and yet so hard to achieve," Northrop VP Walsmith said. "It is easy to say. It's very hard to engineer."

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"I will offer you there will be no sanctuary in the next fight. We have to have a resilient network," Lt. Gen. John Morrison said.

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"I have a mantra of 'I want to kill to the [Common Access Card] as the primary authentication mechanism for the department'," Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner said.

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"In terms of weapons systems, we have computers on wings, at sea, and on land. We don't think of [weapons systems] that way, but none of them work without computers," NSA's Joyce said.

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"We aim to convey that, 'Hello, we are from the government, and we're here to help' is not a scary idea," the general joked, alluding to a famous quote by former President Reagan.

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