The Pentagon’s Cyber Strategy, One Year Later
BY WILLIAM J. LYNN III, Foreign Affairs
Cyber warfare has emerged as a real and destructive threat in modern warfare. Cyber attacks not only include traditional methods such as stealing intellectual property from commercial networks and spying on the government, but cyber technology has expanded to include the ability to destroy critical networks, thereby causing physical damage, and the ability to alter the performance of key systems. In addition, more actors are willing and able to use cyber technologies to carry out attacks than ever before. In response, the Pentagon developed a military cyberstrategy to better defend the United States in the event of a cyber attack. One year later, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III evaluates the U.S. response to this growing threat.
