What the Announced NSA / Cyber Command Split Means

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 What the Announced NSA / Cyber Command Split Means


    By Patrick Tucker Read bio

August 18, 2017


Cyberwar and cyber intelligence are diverging, as are Cyber Command and the NSA. Here’s what that means for the man who leads both entities, the future of signals intelligence collection, and cyberwarfare.

The move to elevate Cyber Command to a full Unified Combatant Command and split it off from the National Security Agency or NSA shows that cyber intelligence collection and information war are rapidly diverging fields. The future leadership of both entities is now in question, but the Pentagon has set out a conditions-based approach to the breakup. That represents a partial victory for the man who directs both Cyber Command and the NSA.

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/08/what-announced-nsa-cyber-command-split-means/140362/?oref=d-river

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I see this as a good thing.  However there is an additional split that is necessary.  There needs to be a civil cyber defense organization.  A Cyber Guard similar to the Coast guard.  The charter should be to work with the Secret Service and defend our borders against international attacks against our infrastructure, industry and economy.