Cyber Collaboration in Government Still a Work in Progress

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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/02/cyber-collaboration-government-still-work-progress/106071/

By Hallie Golden
Nextgov.com
Feb 25, 2015

Amid the onslaught of cyberthreats faced by federal agencies, the 
potential for an even larger and more sustained catastrophic version of a 
digital attack has become an increasingly real possibility.

If such a scenario were to took take place, the Defense Department would 
certainly play a lead role in the response. But it likely couldn’t do it 
alone, according to Lt. Gen. Edward Cardon, commanding general of the Army 
Cyber Command.

“It’s not solely going to be a DOD problem,” he said this week at a New 
America Foundation event on cybersecurity.

Despite the fact that his organization increased exponentially in a year 
-- going from only two functional units, to its current 25 -- a 
large-scale nation-state-directed cyberattack magnitude could likely not 
be defeated without significant teamwork across the federal government and 
the private sector, according to Cardon.

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